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The Good Fortune Show with Sugandhi Iyer Emotions, Grace, and the Five-Star Vibration of Good Fortune Sugandhi Iyer reads from her book Joyful Manifestation to explore emotions, belief systems, grace, and free will, then uses hotel stays, Uber rides, and a world headline to show how vibrations shape good fortune. Emotions, Thoughts, and Belief Systems Sugandhi Iyer opens The Good Fortune Show by reading chapter seven of her book Joyful Manifestation, "Emotions," reminding listeners that thoughts trigger emotions and urging them to let go of thoughts that create feelings below their true state of joy. She explains that emotions arise from deeper belief systems, so lasting change means editing those beliefs rather than just managing feelings. Iyer illustrates this with a fictitious couple, Jane and John, showing how Jane's belief that she isn't good enough generates thoughts of unworthiness, which in turn produce emotions that keep her stuck in a discouraging loop. She encourages listeners to challenge such beliefs directly, asking why anyone should assume they aren't likable or attractive enough, and insists on replacing self-doubt with a confident, positive self-image. Emotions exist, she says, so consciousness can enjoy the different colors of life, and the goal is always to feel good and to challenge any belief system that gets in the way of that. Gratitude, Grace, and a Pair of Harem Pants Iyer turns to gratitude, reading a passage from her book describing gratitude as the acknowledgment of God's presence and grace as what keeps flowing when a person stays open to receiving it. She shares a small personal story to illustrate the idea: she tried to buy denim harem pants at a mall, but an online payment glitch meant the store never released them to her. When she returned later and finally tried them on, they looked like a huge, stiff tent, and she instead found a pretty sky-blue top with silver embroidery that she could wear almost anywhere. Iyer frames the failed purchase as grace working quietly in the background, saving her money and a wardrobe mistake, even though she admits she felt the presence of grace more than any strong rush of gratitude. She stresses that this kind of everyday grace does not require being wealthy to notice, only a willingness to stay open to it. Destiny, Free Will, and Personal Patterns Moving from grace to destiny, Iyer reads another quote from Joyful Manifestation: at the level of the self a person has complete free will, but at the level of personality things can feel destined until one realizes who they really are. She explains that personality traits create repeating patterns, pulling people into the same situations again and again, while the inner self, when accessed through practices like meditation, can override those patterns and exercise genuine free will. As an example, she points to her own habit of checking into five-star hotels, noting that she is staying overnight in one as she records the show. She calls this a pattern she consciously watches, one she could increase, reduce, or eliminate depending on what serves her, rather than something she is a passive prisoner of. Recognizing and inspecting one's patterns, she says, is the first step toward real freedom of choice. Traps, Drama Labels, and Breakups Iyer describes how people in relationships often set emotional traps for each other, sometimes knowingly and sometimes not, through ingrained personality habits. Once a partner falls into the trap, she says, the other gains an opening to label them a drama queen or drama king, and that label then justifies further conflict or even a permanent breakup. She frames this cycle as deeply damaging to good fortune, since two people who initially find real compatibility can destroy it simply by repeating destructive response patterns. Iyer connects this dynamic to karma, defining it plainly as work and action rather than mysterious cosmic punishment, and explains that emotional imprints from repeated conflict get stored in a person's energy field, which the Law of Attraction then mirrors back as more of the same situations and people. The remedy, she argues, is noticing the trap before falling into it and consciously choosing a different response rather than reacting automatically. Five-Star Energy and Matching Ubers After a music break, Iyer returns with a vivid example of "like attracts like." She describes taking an unremarkable Uber to a modest, not particularly upscale mall, then later calling another Uber after spending time at a five-star hotel, only to have a spanking-new, fully air-conditioned car arrive that matched the hotel's luxury exactly. She argues this was not coincidence or anyone's doing, but her own vibration shifting to match her surroundings, and insists the quality of everything in a person's life rises or falls with the energy of the places they choose to inhabit. Iyer ties this back to the power of small, everyday choices, saying five-star experiences exist in certain pockets, especially places visited by international travelers, and that deliberately seeking them out protects a person's aura and keeps attracting similarly high-quality experiences, whether in hotels, transportation, relationships, or work situations. Faith, Peace, and Closing Affirmations Closing the hour, Iyer reads another passage from Joyful Manifestation on releasing fear-based beliefs and trusting only in good outcomes, then addresses whether faith requires blind acceptance. She argues faith is logical rather than blind, comparing it to trusting the sun will rise or the stars will keep shining even when unseen, and says real faith rests on believing everything operates in divine and perfect order. She briefly references the attempted hijacking of a flyDubai flight bound toward Israel as an example of a troubled region whose vibrations attract further trouble, cautioning listeners to avoid such energies rather than try to be a hero. Peace, she says, should be lived in organically rather than fought for, since fighting implies its absence, and people can choose peaceful places and peaceful choices even within a single country. Iyer signs off reminding listeners that like attracts like, and invites them back the following week for the Joyful Manifestation Show at 7:00 p.m. Pacific.

Hard News on Friday with Tara Green and Rama Arjuna Mayan Day-Count for the No Kings March, Kryon's Teaching on Angels and an Embodiment Meditation with Taurean Rain Bird opens with a Mayan day-count tied to the No Kings march weekend and the weekly funding appeal, after which Rama Arjuna and Tara Green share field dispatches on Gaza and the UN Security Council, sit in on a channeled Kryon teaching on angels, hold a channeled Mother dialogue, and close with an embodiment meditation led by Taurean. Opening Breath and the Mayan Day-Count Rain Bird opens the broadcast by leading listeners through a few slow breaths into their heart space, gathering guides, guardians, totems and ancestors around a virtual campfire, then drums with a Kimi drum to call in the seven galactic directions of the Mayan tradition, chanting "Ah Yum, Hunab Ku, Evam Maya, E Ma Ho." She reads the week's Mayan day-count, opening with today's 5 Kan, the yellow overtone seed, tied to commanding, radiance and empowerment. Saturday brings 6 Chicchan, the red rhythmic serpent, which she ties to the No Kings march and a 10-10-10 portal day with a new moon at 11:50 a.m. Eastern. Sunday is 7 Cimi, the white resonant worldbridger; Monday, Indigenous Peoples' Day, is 8 Manik, the blue galactic hand; Tuesday is 9 Lamat, the yellow solar star; Wednesday is 10 Muluc, the red planetary moon; and Thursday is 11 Oc, the white spectral dog. She previews next Friday's 12 Chuen, the blue crystal monkey, and offers a mantra and release for each glyph. Listener Support and the Weekly Funding Appeal Rain Bird shifts into the weekly funding appeal, explaining that BBS Radio needs $184 each week to keep the Friday program on Station 1, and directing listeners to bbsradio.com, where the show is listed under Hard News. She also promotes the Saturday program, indexed as The True History, History of NESARA and Our Galactic Origins, at the 3:30 hour. She says Tara and Rama need $200 for living expenses plus $235 in bills this week, a total of $435, and gives the PayPal address Koran9999@hotmail.com, confirmed under the name Ram D. Berkowitz, along with a mailing address at Post Office Box 280, Santa Cruz, New Mexico, 87567. She points listeners to rainbowroundtable.net for NESARA history and Rama's updates, and mentions a GoFundMe for Tara and Rama's health supplements. After thirteen thank-yous, she ceremonially passes a talking stick decorated with fairies, unicorns and galactic rays to Tara and Rama, who greet the commanders, eagles and angels listening. Rama's Dispatches on Gaza, Lady Nada and Earth Changes Rama Arjuna reads a run of dated dispatches starting the previous Friday. He describes sitting with deer, crows and snow-white cats at Sun Mountain while chanting the Adi Shakti mantra, then relays a text from Lady Nada, who he says addressed the UN Security Council on Gaza and the Strait of Hormuz; Tara presses him for detail, and he names Pete Hegseth among those he calls war criminals and mentions Democrats releasing unredacted Epstein files. On Monday he visits the I AM Sanctuary with caretaker Charlie and a man named Stone. Midweek he relays messages from a crew he calls Larry, Tom, Larry, Curly, Moe and Sweet Angelique, who he says fly an emerald-green and sapphire-blue ray and a violet flame over Gaza, stalling Israeli equipment at a force field, an unverified claim. He cites a 7.7 earthquake in Panama, solar flares, and Hurricane Isaias flooding, and names Pam Gregory, Gregg Braden and Mr. Keshe. Today he sits on Moon Mountain chanting the Gayatri mantra, then relays a message from Mr. X in Jordan comparing Gaza to Afghanistan. Kryon's Teaching on Angels via a Recorded Segment Rama Arjuna passes the talking stick to a roughly fourteen-minute recorded segment titled "Are Angels Real?" featuring an entity that introduces itself as Kryon of Magnetic Service. Kryon argues that consciousness has been shown to behave as energy, citing two experiments during the September 11 emergency that found a global wave of compassion altering the planet's magnetic field and random number generators. He says angelic beings exist in a dimension slightly higher than three-dimensional reality, so a skeptic who demands angels show themselves will see little, since a lower-dimensional being cannot visit a higher one, though the reverse is possible; he cites Moses and the burning bush as an example. Kryon describes every person as born with a guiding entourage of guides and angels who wait, by free will, to be acknowledged, notes that angelic imagery is usually female, and adds that some beings mistaken for angels are actually benevolent star family. He closes urging listeners to give intent to the angelic realm. A Channeled Mother Dialogue on the Shift of the Ages Tara Green and Rama Arjuna invoke Saint Germain and the violet flame to open a channeled dialogue with a presence they call Mother, speaking through Rama. Mother describes a shift of the ages already under way, with Earth as "center stage" in a quantum field, and cites the Hopi prophecy of a Rainbow Nation arriving with the Blue Star and Red Star Kachinas. Mother insists the answer to every crisis is love rather than the sword or the fist, jokes that people are better served by gratitude than by Allstate or Farmers insurance policies, and credits Mr. Keshe's plasma technology and a rising Schumann resonance, which Rama attributes to a YouTube creator called Consciously Erin, with helping humanity ascend. Tara asks what Mother has to teach, and Mother answers with reflections on amino acids, creatine and living radiance before the segment closes with a chanted invocation of "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, Adonai Tzva'ot." Several passages here are garbled in the source transcript. An Embodiment Meditation With Taurean and Sign-Off Rama Arjuna briefly steps out of the Mother channel, describing a few quiet moments listening to the energies of the new moon in Libra, before handing the talking stick to a recorded meditation led by Taurean, titled "Embodying the New Awakening." Taurean guides listeners to breathe into their heart center and picture a point of golden light representing their I AM presence, then to envision a radiant version of themselves free of old beliefs and the need for approval, repeating the affirmation "I am ready to embody more of who I truly am." The meditation closes with a final affirmation of trust in divine timing and a spoken "Namaste." Tara Green and Rama Arjuna thank announcer Don and BBS Radio for having them, pass the stick back to Rain Bird, who praises the meditation and thanks the audience, and Don closes the broadcast by wishing everyone a good weekend before the hosts sign off together with "Sat Nam."

Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg - Medium Insights with host Roman Karpishka and guest Certified FFF Medium Renee Buck Ancestral Spirits, Fraud In Mediumship, and the Telepathy Tapes Boom with Renee Buck On this Medium Insights hour of Signs of Life, host Roman Karpishka welcomes Minnesota medium Renee Buck back for a sixth visit to talk ancestor spirits, fading mediums who lose their gift, a funny message from her own late sister, and how the Telepathy Tapes podcast is bringing skeptics to her door. A Sixth Visit for Renee Buck Roman Karpishka opens the monthly Medium Insights hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation by welcoming back certified medium Renee Buck, whom he calculates is making her sixth appearance, tracked in saved files of listener questions he keeps between visits. He recaps her story: a Minnesota medium who had out-of-body experiences and prophetic dreams as a child, who did not consciously begin developing her gift until her forties through visits to spiritualist churches, and who now runs a thriving practice called Whispers From The Light. Karpishka reads the show's commercial-free call-in number and reminds listeners that tonight's questions concern mediumship itself rather than personal readings. The two trade easy small talk about unseasonably warm Minnesota weather, hockey loyalties including Karpishka's own Montreal Canadiens, and gentle teasing over Wisconsin versus Minnesota cheeseheads before settling into the evening's prepared questions. Generations of Spirits and Family History Karpishka reads a listener's question asking whether spirits who died half a century or more earlier ever come through, and how spirit feels about messages families cannot act on. Renee Buck says older relatives surface often, even when the sitter never met them personally, because families carry photos and stories that supply usable evidence. She notes that particular careers, talents, or themes tend to thread through generations, and spirits may reveal how long ago they lived, where they immigrated from, or what culture they carried, though confirming very distant ancestors is harder without documented evidence to draw on. Buck adds that loved ones in spirit care deeply about families knowing their own heritage, and she encourages listeners who have never researched family history to begin, since naming and knowing ancestors can draw them closer. Karpishka notes that without a sitter who recognizes the names or vernacular involved, a spirit may have little reason to come through at all. When Mediumship Goes Wrong The conversation turns to mediums who lose their way. Renee Buck says she has watched developing mediums with real ability fade once greed, ego, or a wish to manipulate sitters crept into their work, recalling one unnamed medium who used readings to steer people toward her own self-interest. Buck frames the gift as a kind of promise to spirit and to Source, one that must serve others rather than the medium herself. Karpishka raises the familiar pattern of well-known mediums whose published books later turned out to be ghostwritten, though neither names anyone directly. Buck then answers a question about timing after a loss, describing an early window when the newly passed linger to comfort the living, followed by what she calls a whiteout period of roughly two weeks to three months when the spirit is reintegrating and readings grow murky. She generally advises waiting about five months, so the connection clarifies and the sitter's own grief has calmed enough to meet spirit halfway. A Sister's Message About the Laundry Renee Buck shares a story from her mediumship class the previous night, in which a newer student brought through one of Buck's own late sisters, offering evidence about knitting, close friendships, and a homecoming chariot before blurting out the message put away the clothes, which Buck laughs is exactly the unfinished closet swap sitting in her bedroom and exactly her sister's old habit of nagging her to tidy up. The two then discuss split links, the spiritualist term for two spirits speaking through one channel at once, and why Buck rarely does group readings anymore, since multiple sitters on a call tend to throw out information all at once as they test what she can perceive, unlike platform work where she feels physically drawn toward one person at a time. Asked about alcohol and spirit communication, Buck says she only opens up during a reading or class, warning that drinking lowers vibration and makes it unclear who one is actually connecting with. Death's Manner, Reincarnation, and a Grieving Father Karpishka asks whether the manner of death shapes a reading, and Buck says it shapes what spirit wants to discuss first: overdoses, suicides, and sudden accidents often surface early because sitters carry questions about intent or regret, though every reading eventually turns toward peace and the spirit's ongoing growth. Karpishka shares that after his own son crossed over, strong signs arrived within a couple of months and continued for roughly a year afterward. He then reads a listener's letter from a grieving parent who fears a son's reincarnation might prevent a future reunion in spirit. Buck recommends Dr. Michael Newton's Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, explaining Newton's regression-based idea that a portion of every soul remains on the other side to greet loved ones even while other portions of that same soul energy may be living overlapping lifetimes on Earth. She calls the books ones she rereads annually before teaching her own retreats. Retreats, Workload, and the Telepathy Tapes Effect Karpishka asks how Buck trains new mediums, and she describes a five-day in-person retreat progression that begins with the energy body and chakras, moves into psychic exercises like telepathy before distinguishing psychic ability from mediumship, then introduces psychometry with objects and photographs before students work without any props at all. She says she never takes more than five two-to-three-hour readings a week and now does them entirely by phone rather than video, trusting her clairvoyant and clairsentient senses more with her eyes closed, a habit the pandemic made permanent. Buck credits the Telepathy Tapes podcast and Liz Entin's WTF Just Happened for bringing in skeptical, science-minded first-time clients, and Karpishka praises researcher Julie Beischel's mediumship studies. Before signing off, Buck plugs Whispers From The Light, says bookings run four to five months out, and mentions she is still finalizing dates for next spring's Minnesota retreat as Karpishka closes the hour.

Brother Jim Shaw Ministries Ep204 Paul's Trials Forsaken But Not Forsaken: Brother Jim Shaw Preaches Paul's Final Words to Timothy Brother Jim Shaw works through Paul's closing words to Timothy in Second Timothy chapter four, drawing lessons on being forsaken by friends, trusting no man, and fighting self-pity by setting one's sights on Jesus. Paul Declares His Course Is Finished Brother Jim Shaw opens the broadcast by telling listeners that if a spirit of self-pity ever tries to creep in, they should remember what Jesus endured, and that anyone walking in his steps will suffer the same. He turns to Second Timothy chapter four, reading Paul's declaration that he is ready to be offered, that his departure is at hand, and that he has fought a good fight, finished his course, and kept the faith. Shaw explains that Paul is telling Timothy plainly that his time is up, with a crown of righteousness waiting for him and for all who love the Lord's appearing. He frames the passage as Paul settling his affairs near the end of his ministry, a man who had traveled constantly, been shipwrecked, and landed on islands, now facing his final chapter with a short list of requests for his young protege. Demas Departs and Alexander Does Harm Shaw reads how Paul tells Timothy that Demas, once a good friend mentioned elsewhere in the Gospel, has forsaken him, having loved the present world, and has departed for Thessalonica, while Crescens and Titus have gone to Galatia and Dalmatia. Only Luke remains with him, and Paul asks Timothy to bring Mark, calling him profitable for ministry, along with the cloak, books, and parchments left at Troas with Carpus. Shaw pauses on the detail that Paul, perhaps the greatest worker for spreading the Word, is left with a single companion. He then highlights Paul naming Alexander the coppersmith, who did him much evil, and Paul's response that the Lord will reward him according to his works. Shaw uses this to warn listeners that Christianity is not simply sweet and pleasant, since believers are fighting principalities, powers, and rulers from the moment they wake. Delivered From The Lion's Mouth Shaw reads Paul's account that at his first answer no man stood with him, that all men forsook him, yet he prays it will not be held against them, because the Lord stood with him and strengthened him so the preaching would be fully known to the Gentiles, and he was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. Shaw says he believes this lion represents demonic attack rather than a literal animal, comparing it to the opposition Paul faced in Galatia when he exposed churches' sin and conferred not with flesh and blood. He warns that anyone resisting bondage such as greed, covetousness, sexual lust, fear, or respect of men will come under attack and suffer affliction even within the kingdom. Shaw insists believers must preach to themselves first, warning that hypocrites who live in conscious sin while claiming to serve the kingdom destroy testimonies and do the kingdom no good. Jesus In The Garden As The Example Shaw distinguishes between demonic possession, which he says never afflicted Jesus, and the deliverance some believers need when demons have taken hold of their minds, requiring spiritual warfare to be loosed. He points listeners to Jesus in the garden as the ultimate example, describing the attack Jesus endured there so severe that blood poured from his vessels, calling this the model of what believers may be called to go through. Shaw returns to Paul's words that the Lord will deliver him from every evil work and preserve him unto his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory forever. He contrasts a reborn Christian with someone he calls a ritualistic, traditional Christian who believes signing a card or inheriting family belief is enough, insisting true faith is a personal relationship in which the Lord lives within the believer's heart, and that believers belong to a different kingdom than the nations and cultures around them. Trust No Man, Fight Self-Pity Shaw tells listeners to shout back at Satan's attacks of bitterness, hatred, or lust that the Lord shall deliver them from every evil work and preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. He recalls that Paul was abandoned by his friend Demas and harmed by Alexander, yet the Lord stood with him regardless, and he urges listeners never to fully trust any man, no matter how long they have known him or how good he seems, since none of us have arrived. Whatever trial a listener faces, whether cancer, disease, or hardship, Shaw tells them to cast it out in the name of Jesus, put up a shield of faith against evil words, and repent of known sins without giving the trial itself a name or letting it become an idol. He warns that self-pity focuses only on self, and that life and death are in the power of the tongue, so believers must guard their words. The Apostles' Example and Closing Contact Shaw reminds listeners that Paul was left utterly alone with only pen and parchment, asking Timothy to bring him a cloak because no one else would. He points to John the Baptist living in the wilderness on locusts and wild honey, and to the apostles' fates, Peter hung upside down, Andrew cut into quarters, and John boiled in oil, as proof the world system hates Christians. Shaw closes by urging listeners to set their sights on things above rather than on their trials, since Christians belong to a different kingdom entirely, and he pronounces a blessing and amen over the broadcast. The announcer returns to close the program, repeating the ministry's website, a post office box number in Vero Beach, Florida, and a phone number given twice for emphasis, inviting listeners back for another broadcast and pointing them to Brother Jim's YouTube page for additional messages.

Tony Alamo Ep80 How to have God's life living in you part 178 Polygamy, the Book of Jasher, and Seducing Spirits in the Last Days World Pastor Tony Alamo opens program 280 of How to Have God's Life Living in You with teaching on polygamy, child-marriage customs drawn from the Book of Jasher, and warnings about seducing spirits in the last days, while co-host Sharon Alamo reads scripture, ministry testimonials, and the Christmas story from Luke. Program 280 Opens With Warnings Of Coming Wrath World Pastor Tony Alamo opens program 280, part 178 of his series How to Have God's Life Living in You, reminding listeners that tapes, CDs, Bibles, and his literature are free of charge when finances are short, with postage and handling covered by the ministry. He says co-host Sharon will give several ways to order copies at the end of the hour, and he asks those with means to pledge toward radio broadcasts and newspaper ads so the gospel can reach more homes. Alamo tells listeners the Lord has informed him that once the hundred forty-four thousandth Jew is saved, the wrath of God will pour out on the earth in rapid, unannounced plagues, striking like a thief in the night. He warns that only what is done for the Lord in this life will count at the judgment, urging listeners not to hoard millions or billions while souls remain unreached. A Teaching On Polygamy And A Cash Challenge Alamo turns to a teaching that having more than one wife is sometimes ordained by the Lord, though he stresses not everyone is called to it, citing God giving David several wives in the Old Testament and saying that if more had been needed, the Lord would have provided them. He insists there is no condemnation in scripture for a wife the Lord gives, and offers a cash challenge, fifty thousand dollars, raised later in the program to one hundred thousand dollars, to anyone who can find a verse in the Old or New Testament, King James Version, declaring that no polygamist shall enter the kingdom of heaven. He says he knows people have gone to prison for acting on something he believes God directed, and insists Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He asks Sharon to read First Timothy on seducing spirits so listeners can hear scripture he says the government and media twist. Seducing Spirits, Abortion Statistics, And School Condoms Sharon reads First Timothy four, verses one through three, on seducing spirits and doctrines of devils that forbid marriage in the latter times, and Alamo calls this a prophecy being fulfilled by a government and media he brands the Antichrist. He has Sharon cite abortion figures, eighty-eight thousand, nine hundred eighty-one in New York City in 2005 and ninety-one thousand, six hundred seventy-three the year before, adding that forty-four percent of births occur outside marriage and that schools hand out a million and a half condoms a month to pre-teens and teenagers. Alamo argues the government stimulates casual sex while branding marriage, which he calls scriptural and sinless, as the real evil, pointing to young women who have reached puberty as ready for marriage. He says he preaches this not from personal interest but because the Lord keeps pressing him to speak against laws that imprison people for what he believes scripture allows. The Book Of Jasher And Rebekah's Marriage At Ten Alamo tells listeners the Catholic Church removed books from the Bible, including the Book of Jasher, the books of Enoch, Clement, and Wisdom, which he offers free to anyone who cannot afford them. He has Sharon read Joshua ten and Second Samuel one, both referencing the lost book of Jasher, then turns to its account of Rebekah, said to be ten years old when she married Isaac, who was forty. Alamo argues puberty, not a fixed age, marks readiness for marriage, citing Mary's espousal to Joseph around age ten or eleven under Middle Eastern custom described in a New York Sun article dated December 21, 2006. He criticizes Martin Luther's description of the Vatican as a sewer of corruption and insists the hierarchy, not ordinary Catholics, perpetuates what he calls Antichrist teaching. He says former Catholics make up more than two-thirds of his own congregation, and that true believers of any background belong to one body in Christ. A Jericho Song And Four Listener Testimonies Alamo sings Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho with J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, then teaches that the Lord is about to pour out plagues once the last of the hundred forty-four thousand Jews are sealed, after which he says there will be no more salvation and the earth becomes a nightmare. He turns to listener testimonials read by Sharon: a Los Angeles woman whose sister got saved and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit after reading the tract Five Steps to Salvation during a divorce; a man named Dante who says tongues came to him days after his salvation at the Tony Alamo Christian Church and who credits the same Holy Spirit with later reaching his sister; a Fort Smith, Arkansas account of a woman who dreamed the name Tony Alamo before receiving a gospel tract; and a Fullerton, California woman named Mary who found Alamo's article in the Orange County Herald while studying Ezekiel thirty-seven. Luke's Nativity, David's Rebuke, And A Closing Prayer Sharon reads the second chapter of Luke describing Caesar Augustus's decree, the journey to Bethlehem, the manger, the shepherds, and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple before Simeon, while Alamo comments line by line on the espousal customs behind Joseph and Mary's marriage, drawing on George M. Lamsa's Idioms in the Bible Explained. He warns Hulk Hogan by name against letting his daughter date, calling courtship unscriptural and dangerous. Before closing, Alamo has Sharon read Second Samuel twelve, where the prophet Nathan tells David, who had taken another man's wife, that the Lord himself had given David his master's wives and daughters, arguing this proves plural marriage can come from God for those the Lord specifically chooses. Alamo leads a spoken sinner's prayer confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God, and Sharon gives the ministry's website, Texarkana post office box, phone, and fax numbers before Alamo closes the hour singing Where the Healing Waters Flow with J.D. Sumner and the Stamps.

The Care Compass Elder Law, Estate Planning, and Protecting Aging Parents from Scams with Paul Schlegel Dame Nicole Brandon sits down with Prescott, Arizona attorney Paul Schlegel of Burnham Law to talk through elder law, estate planning, grandparent guardianship, and the scams that target aging parents. Walking Into Care Compass With A Hero Dame Nicole Brandon opens The Care Compass by welcoming listeners back and thanking them for journeying with her through the hardest parts of caregiving. She reports on an extraordinary week in Prescott, Arizona, where the city hosted the Walk to End Alzheimer's and a Senior Health Fair, events she says show families rallying around each other with love and support. Nicole tells listeners she rarely calls anyone a hero, but today's guest is one of the few she does. She introduces Paul Schlegel, an attorney with Burnham Law, and explains why families so often avoid thinking about the law even though life inevitably brings legal circumstances into the picture. Nicole recalls her own most vulnerable moment, saying Paul never made her feel wrong for her fears, and that his ability to listen and then translate her circumstances into real legal solutions is what convinces her he belongs on the show today. Why Families Must Plan Ahead Paul Schlegel explains that families practicing elder law rarely plan ahead, and that he has personally witnessed siblings fight bitterly after parents pass away without estate planning documents in place, disputes that can poison relationships for the rest of their lives. He shares that his own mother is ninety and his father ninety-three, both still living independently in Colorado, and that he and his siblings sat down together to plan their parents' estate so everyone already understands what will happen and there is no tension waiting ahead. Paul then recalls acting as personal representative and power of attorney for an elderly couple living in an RV with no children nearby. When the husband broke his hip during the early days of COVID and never recovered, Paul found himself arranging around-the-clock care for the widow, who had dementia, and sometimes spending the night with her himself when no caretaker was available, an experience that deepened his appreciation for people living with dementia and Alzheimer's. Guardianship, Scams, And A Family's Close Call Nicole asks about grandparents who suddenly become guardians for grandchildren, and Paul explains that courts typically grant permanent guardianship, or sometimes adoption, and he urges grandparents in that position to put estate planning documents in place naming a future guardian for the children. He describes his own contract doing dependency work for the county, representing both parents and children in abuse and neglect cases, visiting foster placements, and growing genuinely attached to the children he represents over cases that can stretch for years. Nicole shares that her mother's RAZ Mobility Phone, which only dials pre-programmed family members, protects her from scammers targeting people with Alzheimer's. Paul then tells his own story: a caller claiming to be an attorney convinced his parents that their grandson had been in an accident and needed thirteen thousand dollars in cash to avoid jail. His parents withdrew the money before calling Paul, who confirmed his son was safe at home, and his parents returned the cash and reported the attempted scam to police. A Career From Classrooms To Courtrooms Paul describes family law as a broad umbrella covering divorce, modification of parenting plans, and enforcement of child support and spousal support, distinct from probate law, which handles wills and powers of attorney. He explains that Arizona requires a parenting class for anyone going through a divorce involving children, a class he taught for the county for about ten years, always stressing that courts decide custody based on the best interests of the child rather than either parent. Nicole asks about grandparents during divorce, and Paul notes Arizona has a grandparent's rights statute allowing petitions for visitation time. He traces his own path from teaching middle school and working summers as a wrangler leading horse pack trips, into a master's degree and an unfinished doctorate in Latin American history at Northern Arizona University, and finally into law school after his own difficult divorce left him determined to understand the legal system. He later served as a city court judge for eleven and a half years. Finding The Right Attorney And Cherishing Time Paul offers practical advice for anyone nervous about calling a lawyer: ask around, since attorneys live and die by reputation, and look for someone compassionate rather than someone chasing money. He clarifies that probate attorneys, not family lawyers, handle wills, living wills, and powers of attorney, so families should match the right specialist to the right need. Nicole shares that her own parents have been married sixty-seven years, and Paul answers that his parents will celebrate their seventy-second anniversary on November fourth, with the whole family traveling to Colorado for Thanksgiving. He admits his father now repeats old stories, but says he enjoys hearing them anyway, because the time together is teaching him things about his parents' lives he never fully understood before. His advice to listeners is simple: spend as much time with loved ones as possible, because life is short, and he says he is grateful his own parents involved their children in estate planning so nothing is left uncertain. Closing Thoughts On Fraud And Family Reunion Nearing the close of the hour, Paul returns to the subject of elder fraud, saying it troubles him deeply how often isolated elderly people are financially exploited by someone who slowly works into their lives, and he urges listeners to stay close to aging relatives and treat new, too-helpful acquaintances as a warning sign. Nicole shares a personal update, telling listeners her parents have been reunited after time apart, describing her father's arm wrapped around her mother and his wish, if reincarnation exists, to come back as his own father. She reminds listeners that caregiving requires caring for themselves too, resting, laughing, and leaving the house, and promises that any question they send in will be answered, with Paul invited back if needed. Paul closes by giving his contact information once more, Burnham Law at 136 Grove Avenue in Prescott, Arizona, and Nicole thanks him warmly for his wisdom, his compassion, and his willingness to walk alongside families through difficult legal and emotional terrain.

The Music Hustle with Ramell Douglas Four-Phase Release Strategy, Royalties, and Protecting Your Paperwork Host Ramell Douglas flies solo this week, walking independent artists through a four-phase release-day strategy and breaking down the business side of the industry, from ASCAP, BMI, SoundExchange and the MLC to split sheets and work-for-hire contracts. Opening The Hustle With A Release-Strategy Lesson Ramell Douglas opens this solo episode of The Music Hustle by promising listeners both the grind and the business side of the industry. He tells artists that releasing music without a plan is a mistake, arguing that a true rollout must be treated as a multi-campaign effort rather than a single day of uploading to a distributor and walking away. Douglas explains that hip hop culture now runs on rhythm, lyrical bars, community commentary, and short-form video momentum, so every clip posted before a release should serve a larger narrative instead of standing alone. He frames the hour as a structured walk through four phases of a release calendar, starting six weeks before a track drops, and reminds listeners they can call in live between six and seven Eastern time with questions about building a release around real strategy instead of guesswork. Phase One And Two: Locking Assets And Building Content Douglas lays out Phase One, set-up and infrastructure, which begins six weeks before release day. He tells artists to lock in the master audio, final mix, cover art, press photos, lyric sheets, split sheets, and producer agreements into one organized shared drive, then upload the track to a digital distributor at least four weeks out so ISRC codes and metadata are generated cleanly rather than rushed. He warns that rushed metadata breaks royalty tracking down the line. Moving into Phase Two, the content factory, four weeks out, he describes choosing an anchor visual, whether a full music video, a live performance clip, or a studio breakdown, based on the song and the audience it targets. He then explains the content butchery: filming fifteen to twenty-five short pieces of micro content, pulling the catchiest bars and hooks, and building anticipation with teaser drops, behind-the-scenes clips, and open-verse challenges well before the track ever drops. Phase Three And Four: Press, Radio, And The Blitz Two weeks from release, Douglas moves into Phase Three, media, press, and radio outreach, telling artists to build an electronic press kit with a song breakdown and full metadata, then pitch it to independent blogs, playlist curators, mixshow DJs, and terrestrial stations, pressing physical CDs when an agency is not handling that work. He stresses persistence, saying artists must follow up rather than assume anyone calls back on their own. He also warns against playlist curators who use bots, saying F1MG never touches that practice because it can get a catalog pulled from platforms entirely. Phase Four, launch day and the two-week blitz, calls for activating every channel at once, updating social profiles and streaming avatars to match the single, and posting daily short-form videos with native audio for fourteen straight days to keep the algorithm engaged. Douglas notes that breaking a record typically takes six to eight months of sustained momentum and consistent audience engagement. Community Fanbases And A Shout-Out To Conan Douglas pivots from the calendar to the long game, arguing that a one-hit wonder fades while an artist who builds a real community keeps earning for years. He points to Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Nas, KRS-One, and Wu-Tang Clan as examples of acts whose longevity rests on consistency and a fanbase that stays engaged even during quiet stretches between headlines. He urges artists to reply to comments, thank every blog and curator who shares their music, and push listeners toward an email list for long-term retention, alongside old-school tactics like posters with scannable links and vinyl or CD souvenirs that are making a comeback for independent acts. Douglas then teases an upcoming F1MG release, a track called Same Place from an artist he names as Conan, describing it as a raw, real account of coming up from Watts, California, built on its own strategy that he says works because Conan has a tight community already backing him. The Paperwork Behind The Music: ASCAP, BMI And MLC Douglas shifts into the legal and financial side of the business, walking through copyright registration with the US Copyright Office, explaining that artists should file separately for the Performing Arts share covering lyrics and melody and the Sound Recording share covering the master. He tells listeners to join a performing rights organization, ASCAP or BMI, to collect royalties whenever a song airs on terrestrial radio, television, streaming, or live venues, and to register as both songwriter and publisher so they can claim one hundred percent of available royalties rather than leaving a share on the table. He adds that SoundExchange collects digital performance royalties from satellite radio and internet streaming, while the Mechanical Licensing Collective, or MLC, gathers the mechanical royalties generated on services like Spotify and Apple Music. Douglas stresses that properly connected metadata is what determines whether an artist actually gets paid across every one of these revenue streams. Split Sheets, Contracts, And A Closing Charge Douglas closes out the lesson with split sheets, telling artists that anyone who collaborates with a co-writer, producer, or featured artist must sign one immediately to set exact ownership percentages, noting that a producer keeps rights to a beat even after an artist buys it. He recommends work-for-hire agreements for simple paid services and warns listeners to read every beat license carefully, since some cap free distribution at a set number of streams before royalties shift to the license holder. Douglas urges young artists to slow down and fully understand any contract before signing, and to reach out to The Music Hustle with questions rather than guess. He ends the show with a motivational charge about staying grounded, avoiding unnecessary associations, and putting in consistent work rather than waiting for opportunity to arrive, thanking BBS Radio TV and inviting listeners of every genre to tap into F1MG before an announcer signs him off the air.

Junk Refund Show with Alan Cook Cast Iron Tubs, Groupon Hauls, and Cheap Flights Inside the Junk Refund Business Host Alan Cook broadcasts live from a stalled tub pickup in McLean, Virginia, then narrates a day of Groupon jobs, scrap metal runs, and a costly workshop accident while riding the Beltway between stops, closing with his tricks for flying almost anywhere for under fifty dollars. Live From McLean: The Cast Iron Tub Job Alan Cook opens the show broadcasting live from McLean, Virginia, where he and his helper June have pulled up to haul away a roughly 300-pound cast iron tub. Cook jokes about rigging earbuds so he can keep talking while wrestling the heavy tub, warning listeners the show might be a short one if it is still upstairs. When they reach the site, the contractor explains the tub is not quite ready, maybe forty minutes more, so Cook agrees to swing back later and heads off to plan B instead. Riding along in traffic afterward, he uses the moment to explain the four things his company does with every load it hauls: junking true trash, recycling metal and wire, donating usable goods for a receipt, and selling anything worth selling, with proceeds split back to the customer, a practice he says sets 1-800-Junk-Refund apart from ordinary junk haulers. Groupon Economics and a Railing Job's Sad Backstory Cook details his company's decade-long run on Groupon, where a quarter-truckload of junk removal priced at $229 sells for $99, netting the business roughly sixty percent after Groupon's cut. He cites around 500 reviews and a 4.8 rating, a 96 to 97 percent satisfaction score he calls the highest of any junk removal company on the platform. He recounts that morning's Groupon job at a second-floor apartment, where he and June tossed clothing bags and lowered unplugged lamps by their cords over a railing to speed things along, earning extra loads at $175 and $150 paid by Venmo. The backstory turns somber: the unit belonged to a woman who had just moved up from Florida after her husband died, only to pass away herself three weeks later, a reminder, Cook says, that junk removal often means stepping into people's lives at emotional turning points. Scrap Metal, Craigslist Leads, and a Costly Collision Cook explains how free Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace scrap-metal pickups double as marketing, since customers who get a free haul-away often call back later for paid junk removal at a twenty percent discount. He breaks down scrap pricing, roughly six cents a pound for plain metal versus twenty-three cents for dirty aluminum, and describes repeat visits to a Fairfax, Virginia collector who has spent years amassing lawn mower engines, carburetors, and file cabinets full of small-engine parts. The visit turns dramatic when Cook recalls that the same man, warned more than once to lower an old rusted commercial fan perched precariously above head height, instead walked into its sharp metal frame, gashing his scalp open and spending much of the day in the emergency room. Cook calls it a cautionary tale about clearing hazards before they clear you, even as the crew keeps hauling away truckloads of the man's metal collection. Nancy's Downsizing Job and an Advance-Payment Discount Cook describes a referral from Olney, Maryland realtor Karen Rawlings to a client named Nancy, who is downsizing from a thirty-year family home into a two-bedroom condo. He quotes the job at $495, then applies the standard realtor-referral discount down to $450, with another $50 off if Nancy pays before the crew arrives. Her husband balks at paying in advance, a hesitation Cook says he understands even though out-of-town clients wire full payment sight unseen all the time. The family agrees to the discounted rate, Venmoing $400 ahead of the job, and adds an extra twin bed frame and a sofa bound for her son's basement apartment. The job wraps smoothly, with Nancy handing over a hundred-dollar tip for the couch and her son kicking in another hundred for hauling furniture up and down tricky basement stairs, leaving everyone satisfied. Building the Business With AI Mailing Lists Still stuck in Beltway traffic, Cook credits BBS Radio's use of artificial intelligence for inspiring him to try Microsoft Copilot in his own business. He describes building a spreadsheet of roughly 800 real estate offices around Washington, D.C., each averaging twelve and a half agents, for postcard mailings aimed at generating whole-home cleanout referrals. A second database lists about 800 area gas stations offered free scrap-metal pickups in exchange for future junk-removal discounts. He recounts the mailings already paying off, with calls from an Annapolis gas station owner and a Burke, Virginia car wash yielding free metal pickups, one of which led to a follow-up job clearing barrels and sheet metal from a business in Lanham, Maryland. Cook frames the AI-built lists as a low-cost way to keep generating both scrap income and new long-term customers. Frontier Flights, the GoWild Pass, and the Upside App Cook closes the show with his favorite side topic, cheap travel. He explains Frontier Airlines' annual GoWild Pass, which lets him fly round trip to Salt Lake City for about fifty dollars, staying free on hotel points and still making it home in time for work Monday morning. He describes similarly inexpensive flights to Orlando, Atlanta, and even El Salvador, arguing that modern mobility lets him stay close to family without living nearby. He then plugs the free Upside app, which has paid him more than $1,200 in cash back on gas, groceries, and restaurant visits using his personal promo code, DS9PW. Reflecting on the morning's job for a woman who passed away weeks after downsizing into a condo, Cook urges listeners to enjoy life while they can, travel more, and keep working toward decluttering both their homes and their lives.

Hollywood and Horsepower Show with Mark Otto Howard W. Koch's Hollywood Legacy, Hollywood Park Memories, and Little Red Feather Racing with Billy Koch Mark Otto talks with Billy Koch, grandson of Hollywood producer Howard W. Koch and founder of Little Red Feather Racing, about growing up at Hollywood Park, his family's ties to Casablanca, Airplane!, and Ghost, and his own path from a college racing syndicate to founding The Owner's Box podcast. A Hollywood Royalty Connection Mark Otto opens Hollywood and Horsepower by welcoming Billy Koch, grandson of producer Howard W. Koch and son of Hawk Koch, calling the family royalty in both Hollywood and horse racing. The conversation quickly turns to Casablanca, Otto's favorite film, and Koch explains his grandfather always used the middle initial so no one would confuse him with screenwriter Howard Koch, even wearing a hat reading "I didn't write Casablanca." Otto mentions his friendship with Michael Blowen of Old Friends, who once shared notes exchanged between Julius Epstein and Warner Brothers over the film's censorship. Koch runs through his grandfather's credits, noting he produced many Academy Award telecasts, won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and is best remembered for producing Airplane! and Ghost, plus the Walter Matthau comedies including The Odd Couple. Otto and Koch agree Airplane! is a rare comedy that has only grown funnier with age, still making fun of everybody despite its brief, breezy runtime. Growing Up At Hollywood Park Koch describes Hollywood Park as his childhood home track, where his grandfather would pick him and his sister up on weekends to watch races from the directors' room, calling it a privilege he did not fully appreciate until the track closed. He recalls being at Hollywood Park when Seattle Slew lost to J.O. Tobin, a memory he says still bothers him decades later, and shares a story about running onto the mile oval as a twelve-year-old during reshoots for the Howard W. Koch production Let It Ride, only to quit at the clubhouse turn once the sandy surface proved tougher than expected. Otto and Koch trade affection for Cougar II, a longtime fixture at Kentucky racing events, and lament the string of lost California tracks, including Hollywood Park, Bay Meadows, and Golden Gate Fields. Koch keeps mementos from Hollywood Park, including a barn sign and a box-seat placard, while Otto owns saddle cloths of his own, and both agree the track's closing marked the end of an era unlike any other in racing. Family's Horse Racing Roots Koch traces the family's racing roots to his great-grandfather, also named Billy Koch, who worked as a bookie, a trade Koch jokes may have put racing in the family's blood before his grandfather ever got involved. Howard W. Koch kept horses including Doc Simon and, with actor Telly Savalas, a colt named Telly's Pop who won the two-year-old Western Triple Crown and was considered a Kentucky Derby contender before an injury ended his bid. Koch remembers Savalas, famous for playing Kojak, bringing bags of lollipops to the track and having young Billy hand them out to every woman he saw. His grandfather also owned horses with Walter Matthau under the name Billy Charlie Stables, named for Matthau's son Charlie, and jockeys would give his grandfather their whip whenever a horse broke its maiden, leaving the house full of them. Koch recalls being given twenty dollars by his grandfather at the track each weekend, losing his on daily doubles while his more disciplined sister kept hers, calling it proof he was hooked on the sport from the very start. From Little Red Feather To Ownership Koch explains how he built his own path into ownership after graduating from Northwestern in 1991 with no money but a clear goal, pooling funds with friends from a Cuban restaurant called Versailles to form the Versailles Racing Syndicate and buy a filly named No More Worries. He later ran small claiming funds for fun before friend and Metropolitan Theatres head Bruce Corwin loaned him money to buy horses with partner Don Chatlos, a group that in 2000 included a colt named Singletary. That purchase became the foundation of Little Red Feather, the fractional-ownership partnership Koch still runs, and Singletary rewarded the gamble by winning the 2004 Breeders' Cup Mile at Lone Star Park. Koch says Little Red Feather now counts roughly 500 active investors who trust the operation to find, place, and campaign horses responsibly, though he is candid that the business nearly did not survive the 2008 recession. He warns prospective partners the venture is not an investment vehicle but a way to spend disposable income on the experience of ownership. The Business And Safety Of Racing The conversation turns to the business and politics of the sport, with Koch describing himself as the president of CARMA, the California aftercare organization dedicated to finding retired racehorses safe second careers. Otto and Koch both push back on a recent New York Times article critical of racing's safety record, with Koch pointing to the advocacy group Light Up Racing's rebuttal and arguing that the numbers show the sport is safer than it has ever been, even as individual states still enforce inconsistent medication rules. They agree the sport is remarkably accessible compared with other professional leagues, since fans can speak directly with owners and trainers at the rail, but Koch warns that new wagering platforms such as FanDuel have pulled bettors away from the in-person, brick-and-mortar experience that built the sport's culture. Koch raises Florida's decoupling fight as a genuine threat to purses and the wider industry, while Otto compares racing's safety evolution to that of football and NASCAR, insisting most owners, trainers, and horsemen genuinely want what is best for the animals in their care. Family Legacy And The Owner's Box Koch shares that entertainment still runs through the family despite skipping his father's generation, naming two of his three sons, Cooper, who played Erik Menendez in Netflix's Monsters, and Payton, an Emmy-nominated editor on Only Murders in the Building now cutting Avatar: The Last Airbender, alongside a youngest son pursuing music as a singer-songwriter. He credits his grandfather, Howard W. Koch, with inventing bedtime stories about a fictional chief named Little Red Feather, which inspired the name of his racing partnership as a tribute after his grandfather's passing. Koch and Otto close by discussing The Owner's Box, the podcast Koch has hosted with Michelle Yu for roughly a decade to let owners, bloodstock agents, and veterinarians tell their own stories rather than letting trainers get all the credit. Koch says he runs the show purely to promote ownership and expects no income from it, while Otto praises the format's positivity. Both men reflect on perseverance, noting Cooper nearly quit acting before landing his breakout role, and Otto thanks Koch before closing with sponsor mentions and an invitation to visit a track.

Brother Jim Shaw Ministries Ep203, Beware of Religions No Rituals Needed: Brother Jim Shaw on the Simplicity of Christ and the Thief at the Cross Brother Jim Shaw warns against a surge in religious ritual, contrasting the rules and trappings of organized religion with the simplicity of knowing Jesus Christ within, and closes by saying all he wants is what the thief at the cross received. A Surge in Religion and Its Rituals Brother Jim Shaw opens the fifteen-minute broadcast by noting a surge in religion he has seen reported, particularly reformed Catholicism, and asks listeners what is actually good about it. He compares organized religion to clubs like the Moose Club, the Elks, the American Legion, and the VFW, loaded with rules and belonging. Shaw lists rituals he sees as trappings rather than substance: feast days, traditions, candles, stained glass, kneeling, signs of the cross, crucifixes, rosary beads, holy days, physical baptisms in a small font, confirmations, memorized prayers, and first Holy Communion. He says he is not trying to ridicule anyone, but contrasts all of it with the simplicity of knowing in one's heart that Jesus Christ is Lord. Shaw tells listeners they are the temple, that Jesus lives and resides within them, and that Christ exposes himself in a believer all day long, especially in moments of temptation. Rituals Cannot Overcome the Devil Shaw challenges listeners to name one thing a ritual can do to overcome a devil, insisting it cannot, because devils love rituals and religion since there is no spiritual power in them. He admits people love teams anyway, joking about grown men at a Green Bay Packers game wearing cheese hats and screaming in freezing weather, because everyone wants to belong to a club. Shaw says it is a manifestation of grace when the Lord plucks a person out of the world, making them a living stone of a church built without hands. He warns listeners not to be deceived from the simplicity of Christ, just as Eve was deceived in the garden. He corrects himself over the exact wording, recalling that God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, noting that the good on that tree was just as deceptive as the evil. Saved by Faith, Not by Joining Shaw turns to Paul's teaching in Galatians that believers are saved by faith and live by faith, adding that works will follow faith but a person cannot simply join a club, sign a paper, or be born into generations of a religion and call that salvation. He explains that when Paul wrote of faith he was quoting the Old Testament, since the New Testament did not yet exist, now understood through spiritual eyes after the Savior's coming. Shaw reads Habakkuk 2:4, that the soul which is lifted up in pride is not upright, while the just shall live by faith, which carries no pride. He reads on that a man who transgresses by wine is proud, enlarges his desire like hell, and is never satisfied, gathering all nations and peoples to himself, which he says religions do. Shaw singles out mass cards for the dead in the Catholic church, priced at five, ten, or fifteen dollars, as a never-ending revenue stream he calls worldly insanity. No Vows Required to Enter His Kingdom Shaw tells listeners they do not have to join anything to live by the faith of Christ, since a person comes automatically into his kingdom upon choosing him as personal Lord and Savior, with no need to recite ritual words or take vows no one can keep. He singles out the vow of celibacy taken by priests, asking where it appears in the Gospel, which instead tells believers to be fruitful and multiply, and suggests this explains the scale of scandal among clergy. Shaw says he knows he sounds like a voice in the wilderness, but insists he sides with people as human beings because he loves every one of them regardless of their religion. He adds that even those who are deceived were still made and created by his Creator, though they may not realize it, and that it falls to him to pray for them whenever their paths cross his own. Praying Instead of Judging, Wanting the Thief's Grace Shaw explains that while he can recognize when someone's deeds, drawn from the list in Galatians 5 of adultery, fornication, and covetousness, show they are headed toward judgment, he will not set himself up as their judge, since he too was once a sinner Christ plucked out of that path. He says he may have to separate himself from such people, even family, but insists there is no bitterness, revenge, or pride in his heart, since no believer has accomplished more than another in God's eyes. Shaw rejects the idea of sainthood elevating certain believers above others, saying all believers are saints in Jesus and that God alone gives out rewards. He says all he wants, and all any Christian should want regardless of religion, is what the thief at the cross received: no baptism, no rituals, no candles, only pain and nakedness, yet a turn toward Jesus that earned him paradise that same day. The Narrow Road, the Spirit Within, Closing Contact Shaw closes his teaching by describing one road, the road of the Lamb that leads to the cross, where believers pick up their own cross, deny themselves, and follow a Jesus who lives within them as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He recalls that on the cross Jesus was fully man, needing the Father to forgive his accusers, yet on other occasions forgave sins himself, outraging the Pharisees, who asked who he thought he was. Shaw says the kingdom of God is within every believer wherever they are, behind the wheel, hanging drywall, or on a garbage truck, and that Jesus gives the power to overcome sin. He teaches that loving one's neighbor begins with loving God first, warns that cellphones and idol worship can choke the spirit, and urges listeners to hold fast to the spirit inside them before closing with a blessing. The announcer then repeats the ministry's website, a Vero Beach, Florida post office box, a phone number, and the YouTube page.

Tony Alamo Ep279, How to have God's life living in you part 177 A Hit Man's Confession, Judge McCalla's Prison, and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb World Pastor Tony Alamo opens program 279 of How to Have God's Life Living in You with free literature offers, teaching on the marriage supper of the Lamb, and a startling testimony about a former hit man who later died of cancer. Co-host Sharon reads listener letters and a passage from Proverbs as Alamo warns against worldly wealth and closes the hour with a spoken sinner's prayer. Program 279 Opens With Free Offers World Pastor Tony Alamo opens program 279, part 177 of his series How to Have God's Life Living in You, reminding listeners that CDs, tapes, Bibles, and a Messiah book detailing 333 Old Testament prophecies are all available free, with postage and handling covered. He calls the Messiah book the best witnessing tool for reaching Jews because it puts the Old Testament prophecies in plain language. Alamo says the ministry has produced hundreds of pieces of literature and thousands of tapes, plus a radio program airing at least seven days a week, and he invites listeners to sponsor a station or newspaper to spread the message further. He reminds listeners that tithes and offerings are a commandment, not a robbery of the Lord, and warns against the many programs he says preach a false gospel. He quotes the apostle Paul's warning that anyone preaching a different gospel is accursed, repeating the word twice for emphasis. The Marriage Supper and a Prison Testimony Alamo turns to the fourteenth chapter of Luke, describing the invitation to the marriage supper of the Lamb and the excuses people make, buying cars, attending weddings, hosting parties, instead of answering the call. He cites the Lord's warning that anyone who places father, mother, wife, or husband above him is not worthy, and lists sins from Proverbs six, including lying and vain imaginings. Alamo then recounts his own imprisonment, saying prosecutors hid books and records and falsely claimed in court that he had hidden them, a fact he says would have changed the jury's verdict. He describes a six-year sentence of which he served four years plus a half year in a halfway house, and says Judge McCalla in Memphis, Tennessee ignored the evidence when it was later presented. Alamo insists he holds no bitterness toward the Lord for the punishment, saying believers must examine themselves in the Bible as in a mirror rather than blame God. Liars, a Prayer, and Jack Holcomb's Song Alamo declares that liars and false accusers worship Satan, the father of all lies, drawing an amen from a woman in the congregation. He introduces the hour's testimonials, Bible readings, and music, praising gospel singer Jack Holcomb for singing with sincerity rather than the drums, horns, or rap styles Alamo calls close to blasphemy before the Lord. He then leads a prayer asking the Holy Spirit to anoint the service, to humble the congregation before God's throne, and to open the stubborn, distracted minds of listeners to the suffering and resurrection of Jesus. He prays that the lost will be saved, the lukewarm drawn close, and the faithful strengthened, closing in Jesus' name to another amen from the congregation. Alamo then introduces Jack Holcomb's recording of Anywhere With Jesus, telling listeners the song means no harm can come to those who go wherever the Lord sends them. A Hit Man's Confession and a Stolen Church After the song, Alamo tells of a former hit man named Gary Larison who once came to him trembling, confessing he had planned to kill him with a .357 Magnum before the Lord warned Larison he would die of cancer instead. Alamo says he had the gun thrown into a deep lake, and that Larison was later diagnosed with cancer, saw what he called the death angel in a Los Angeles hospital, and dropped dead on the floor. He says the body was embalmed and returned to Dyer, Arkansas, where the ministry had built a large church that the government later confiscated, which Alamo calls outright thievery rather than legitimate seizure. He says Larison's widow, Vicki, remains in the church and can confirm the story, which he dates to roughly twenty-three or twenty-four years earlier, shortly after the death of his late wife Susie from cancer. Alamo says he remains unafraid because the Lord is always with him. Power Not Grace, and the Price of Wealth Alamo teaches that the original scripture describes Jesus arriving with power and truth, not the softened grace of modern translations, insisting the Lord is the most powerful being in the universe rather than a graceful or effeminate figure. He retells the parable of the prodigal son, who demanded his inheritance, squandered it, and returned repentant to his father's house. Alamo connects the parable to the deaths of former President Gerald Ford at ninety-three and singer James Brown at seventy-three, asking what their wealth and position were worth in the end. He also describes Rockefeller surviving only on mother's milk pumped into bottles and tested in a laboratory, and asks what good such riches do without serving God. He urges wealthy listeners, naming Bill Gates, to give at least ten percent to fund evangelism, warning that the end times are near and that people are storing up treasure just as they did in the days of Noah before the flood. Listener Testimonies and a Sinner's Prayer Co-host Sharon reads letters describing the ministry's Dry Bones and Place Yourself literature reprinted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, including a Little Rock woman who once considered Alamo a cult leader but now wants a closer walk with God. Alamo responds by criticizing the Cult Awareness Network and the satanic media for branding true Christians as evil, then defends scriptural marriage customs, citing the Lost Books of the Bible's account of an eleven-year-old Rebekah marrying Isaac. Sharon reads from Proverbs chapter six on the things the Lord hates, prompting Alamo to condemn lying tongues and the shedding of innocent blood through abortion. Alamo closes by leading a spoken sinner's prayer confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God, and Sharon gives the ministry's website, Texarkana post office box, phone, and fax numbers. Alamo signs off as World Pastor Tony Alamo before Jack Holcomb's song Tell It to Jesus plays.

Aging Well With Pharmacist Ben Dirty Blood, Dysbiosis, and the Logic Behind Every "Idiopathic" Disease Pharmacist Ben spends a solo hour tracing skin problems, autoimmune disease and a listener's bone condition back to a single root cause: what gets into the bloodstream through a compromised gut. Along the way he revisits his pharmacy-school doubts about prescription drugs, his decades formulating skin care, and a caller's misdiagnosed "acne." Opening Remarks and Nutritional Pharmacy Roots Pharmacist Ben opens the show from Boulder, Colorado, greeting listeners and giving out his call-in number for questions, comments and Youngevity success stories. He urges anyone not already supplementing to start with Beyond Tangy Tangerine, explaining that a deficient body absorbs nutrients fastest, like a dry sponge. He introduces himself as a reformed prescription drug pharmacist who grew suspicious of the medical model in pharmacy school after watching a training film about a revolutionary new beta-blocker drug, later known as propranolol, in which fifteen minutes of praise were followed by forty-five minutes of side effects read aloud. He recalls his years as a bodybuilder discovering that nutrients could give an edge, and concludes that most sickness reflects nutritional deficiency rather than a missing drug. He frames America's spending on doctors, hospitals and insurance as proof that medicalization has failed, setting up his decision to practice what he calls nutritional pharmacy. Forty-Three Years Studying the Skin Ben describes his parallel career as a skin-care chemist, recalling that while his pharmacy classmates earned internship hours in drugstores, he spent four years working for Dr. Tony Jones, the inventor of Blistex, learning to formulate topical products and grow skin cells. He says he has studied and practiced dermatological pharmacy for forty-three years, since 1983, and argues that skin and nutrition are inseparable, since healthy skin requires adequate vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, protein and quality fats. He criticizes the multibillion-dollar skin-care industry for chasing exotic ingredients while missing what he calls the real secret, concentrated nutrients delivered both internally and topically. Ben insists that almost no skin problem, whether acne, psoriasis, eczema, dryness or premature aging, is truly caused on the skin itself; it is nearly always a systemic issue surfacing on the surface. He says explaining this to clients, more than any product he sells, is what has repeatedly changed people's skin and their lives. A Caller From Mexico and the Trouble With Beans Ben describes a conversation that day with a woman in Mexico whose dermatologist diagnosed acne, which he says is a misdiagnosis. True acne, he explains, develops in the T-zone from cells dividing rapidly inside a follicle, while her condition, blemishes spread diffusely across the whole face, is what he calls a macular, immune-driven rash rather than acne. He traces her trouble to beans and legumes, staples of the Mexican diet, explaining that seeds carry natural anti-nutrients called lectins meant to discourage predators, and noting that ricin, the poison associated with Cold War-era assassinations, is itself derived from a bean molecule. He says vegetarians, who rely heavily on legumes, are especially prone to these inflammatory reactions despite believing their diet is uniquely healthy. Ben predicts that once the woman removes the offending foods, her skin will visibly improve within days and fully clear within roughly one to two skin-turnover cycles, about twenty-eight to fifty-six days. Reactions, Not Diseases, and Dirty Blood Ben argues that the word disease is misleading and prefers to call every health problem a reaction, a response to an action, meaning something entering the bloodstream, almost always through food. He cites a Telegraph report on research from Deep Science Ventures finding that vegetables are roughly half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s because of declining soil quality, meaning people must eat twice as much produce to get the same minerals. Ben says the human body is roughly two million years old but is being fed a food supply that changed entirely within the last century, a mismatch he compares to altering evolution's clock one second before midnight. He introduces a raisin-bread metaphor, describing the body as cells embedded in an extracellular matrix, a word he traces to the Latin for womb or mother, and argues that when the blood feeding that matrix turns thick and hypercoagulable, every chronic illness from arthritis to cancer to Meniere's disease follows the same root cause. Birth, Gut Bacteria, and the Intestinal Wall Ben traces chronic illness back to birth, explaining that babies passing through the birth canal are coated in bacteria that colonize the intestine and, he says, effectively supply genetic material the body's roughly twenty thousand genes cannot provide alone, pointing to the Human Genome Project's discovery of far more proteins than genes to explain them. He warns that the thirty percent of babies delivered by Caesarean section miss this bacterial bath, and that babies born to unhealthy mothers, or who are formula-fed rather than breastfed, inherit compromised immune systems from day one. This chain of events produces dysbiosis, his term for disordered gut bacteria, which he says inevitably inflames the intestinal lining. Ben calls that lining the frontier between the outside world and the bloodstream, the single point through which everything that triggers disease must pass, and argues it explains conditions from acne to atherosclerosis to autoimmune disease without needing any diagnosis labeled idiopathic. A Listener's DISH Diagnosis and Looking Ahead Ben reads a listener email about a wife diagnosed with DISH, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, a condition of excess bone growth that doctors label idiopathic. He reframes the word as inflammatory rather than unexplained, arguing that inflammation disrupts the regulated, step-by-step maturation of cells so they keep growing unchecked, the same mechanism he says underlies acne, fibroids, cysts and cancer. He recommends listeners keep a food diary, citing a vegetarian caller whose skin, menstrual and fibromyalgia symptoms improved once she removed avocados, which he links to histamine. Running short on time, Ben promises to continue the discussion of DISH and introduce the idea of love versus fear as the two basic postures toward life on the next broadcast. He closes by repeating his contact email, inviting listeners to his Friday Zoom calls and Pharmacist Ben's Academy, reaffirming his decades-long endorsement of Youngevity's Beyond Tangy Tangerine, and signing off until Saturday's show.

Reclaiming Authenticity with Dr James Houck Beyond the GPS: Directional Holiness, Spatial Intelligence, and Dismantling the Bricks of Unforgiveness In a solo episode of Reclaiming Authenticity, Dr. James Houck links haecceitas, Howard Gardner's spatial intelligence, and Karen Horney's theory of relational movement to his ongoing brick-wall analogy for healing unforgiveness within families and relationships. Welcome and Beyond the GPS Dr. James Houck opens Reclaiming Authenticity on October 7th, welcoming listeners on their regular Wednesday night slot and reminding first-time listeners that the show is archived as a podcast on iTunes, Audible, Spotify, and Amazon Music. He gives his call-in number, 888-627-6008, and the show's website, inviting callers for the second half of the broadcast. He names tonight's topic, Beyond the GPS, Directional Holiness, describing it as a kind of part two to his previous episode on dismantling the bricks. Houck restates that healing is central to his work and that it unfolds as a process rather than an instant fix, something he sees daily counseling children, teenagers, and adults. He explains that healing means both remembering who people are as souls and working through the wounds, forgiveness, and gratitude that keep people from loving themselves and others unconditionally. Haecceitas and the Hidden Self Houck turns to his favorite image from Andrew Park's book From Hurt to Healing, which describes unhealed wounds as vortices of troubled waters that pull victims into seeing the world through their offenders' eyes. He says healing means learning to see again through one's own eyes. From there he introduces haecceitas, the twelfth-century scholar John Duns Scotus's term for each person's irreducible thisness, a uniqueness no one else can duplicate, which he explains to children by comparing it to a thumbprint. Houck laments that millions of people never discover this uniqueness because society points them toward externals, accomplishments, and accolades rather than toward themselves as souls. He describes how people wounded in relationships, sometimes within their own families, learn to hide their giftedness for fear of exploitation or ridicule, insisting that any voice telling them they are nothing special is a lie. Transformation, he says, begins with self-compassion and gratitude, which then open the heart to see others the same way. Knowing the Soul Beyond Science Houck sums up the show's philosophy in one word, namaste, meaning that recognizing his own lighted soul allows him to greet the lighted soul in another, even when that person cannot yet see it in themselves. He asks how anyone could measure or verify a soul, noting that the scientific method is limited while the soul is limitless, so knowledge of the soul comes through a direct, experiential encounter rather than academic theory. He describes this encounter as transformative and irreversible, giving a person unshakeable conviction rather than mere hope. For those who have not yet had that experience, Houck says faith sustains them, carried along by the testimony of people who have, until their own direct encounter removes the need for faith altogether. He insists the world needs more people willing to walk fully as the lighted souls they already are, setting up the more practical turn the broadcast takes next, toward how people actually relate to one another. Spatial Intelligence and Howard Gardner Houck pivots by asking listeners who in their life is directionally challenged, hopeless without a GPS. He credits psychologist Howard Gardner with debunking the idea that intelligence is a single IQ number, identifying instead eight distinct intelligences, including musical, naturalistic, and spatial intelligence. He illustrates naturalistic intelligence with the example of a Survivor contestant surviving with only a pocketknife and a length of rope, and defines spatial intelligence as the brain's built-in awareness of where the body sits in relation to its surroundings, the instinct that lets someone walk through a crowd or grab a coffee mug without looking. He then carries that spatial idea into relationships, the common denominator of everything people think, say, and do, and the place where the deepest emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wounds occur. He notes that counseling progress is often described through movement, whether a client moves forward with insight, regresses into familiar pain, or stays stuck, setting up the theorists he discusses next. Carl Rogers, Karen Horney, and Moving in Relationships Houck credits a three-dollar book-fair find, Carl Rogers' On Becoming a Person, quoting Rogers on the uniqueness, the haecceitas, of every therapist-client relationship and the fear clients feel while struggling to be themselves. He then turns to psychoanalyst Karen Horney, active alongside Freud and Jung, reframing her theory of neurosis as movement: how children cope with loneliness and helplessness by moving toward others through compliance and dependence, moving against others through hostility and domination, or moving away from others through emotional detachment and a guarded need for self-sufficiency. Horney, Houck notes, had to fight to be taken seriously as a woman in her field yet pressed on with the theory anyway. He explains that adults carry these same childhood coping patterns forward into adulthood, and that healing begins by recognizing which direction, toward, against, or away, a person habitually moves, then working to transform that pattern into healthier, life-giving relationships. Dismantling the Brick Wall of Unforgiveness After the break, Houck returns to his dismantled-brick-house analogy from two weeks earlier, that bricks reduce to clay just as the body, upon death, leaves the soul behind. He names inferiority and superiority as the illusions that reinforce the walls people build in relationships, and warns that unresolved family conflict, like one more biscuit at the table, reliably resurfaces at Thanksgiving, joking that police calls to domestic disputes spike on the holiday. He then leads a guided writing exercise, telling listeners to draw a brick wall on paper and label each brick with a specific hurt they suffered, then, in a different color, with hurts they themselves caused others, assuring them there is no shame or judgment in what they write. He closes by asking what it would take to remove just one brick, tying the wall directly to forgiveness and gratitude, inseparable in his view, which together open the heart to authentic love before he signs off until the next broadcast in two weeks.

SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters Diamonds, Dating Patterns, and the Chocolate Chip Cookie Story with Suman Smith Jennifer Elizabeth Masters talks with jeweler and author Suman Smith about the fears and patterns hiding behind decades of dating stories, from a chocolate chip cookie crush and a banned Hinge profile to the sign that told her she had finally found her husband. Introducing Suman Smith and Her Story Jennifer Elizabeth Masters opens this episode of SOS Coming Home by introducing herself as a hypnotherapist, coach, and author of Odyssey: Victim to Victory, Orgasm for Life, and Sacred Relationships, telling listeners she has spent nearly three decades helping women stop abandoning themselves. She frames the hour as SOS for the Soul and introduces her guest, Suman Smith, a custom jeweler, author, and founder of Luxe Jewels who has spent twenty years listening to what people really talk about when buying diamonds. Masters notes that Smith married for the very first time at fifty-four, after navigating loss, menopause, and a move away from everything familiar, and that she wrote a book called Stop Cockblocking Your Dating Life and created the first independent buyer's side diamond consultation. Masters admits reading Smith's book felt like hearing her own story, and welcomes her warmly to the show before turning to the material underneath it. The Oprah Show and Early Choices Masters asks Suman Smith how she ended up on the Oprah Show at twenty-four, a credential not everyone can claim. Smith explains she wrote a letter responding to an episode about interracial relationships, focused on the broader idea of choosing who to love regardless of culture, since she is Canadian and the conversation felt distant from her own life. She says she actually declined the first invitation because the producers wanted to frame the segment strictly around relationships between African-American and white people, which was not the conversation she wanted to have. Masters pivots to the chemistry trap Smith writes about, the initial spark, the chase, the mystery that keeps the mind racing. Smith describes it as excitement and charisma that depends entirely on how it shows up, noting that women who say they want a nice guy often find themselves pulled toward what feels familiar instead, shaped by childhood fairy tales and the romantic images society sells long before real relationships begin. The Chocolate Chip Cookie Story and Fear Masters brings up the chocolate chip cookie story from Smith's twenties, when she baked cookies from scratch hoping a man she liked would notice her and make the first move. Nothing was ever said between them, and Smith traces the silence back to fear rooted in discrimination she faced growing up, which left her believing she was not attractive enough and not enough, period, to be chosen. She recalls deciding early on that if a man asked her out, she would finally feel worthy, rather than ever saying plainly that she liked someone first. Masters names what is underneath that pattern, looking outside herself for the love she was not giving herself. Smith agrees, adding that most people carry this blind spot regardless of age unless they take responsibility for their own patterns instead of blaming others. She shares a lighter story from high school, a black eye from a softball accident that nobody believed until she invented a dramatic lie, proof that people prefer sensational stories over plain truth. Lies We Tell Ourselves, Ghosting, and Vulnerability The conversation turns to the lies people tell themselves, am I not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, which Smith says still surface in her mind but no longer run unquestioned. She describes being ghosted after promising early dates, then spiraling into checking social media and nearly walking past an ex's office, until one night she gave herself permission to feel her feelings, with a bottle of wine and a self-imposed deadline, rather than spiral further. Masters connects that spiral to living in the past and future instead of the present. Smith credits the shift to not abandoning herself in that moment. They move into vulnerability, which Smith says still takes work even after writing a book built on sharing her own dating stories, and into the difference between a cold heart and a closed heart, cold being wanting connection while holding someone at a distance out of fear, cynicism, and resignation. The Man Who Moved Away and the Three-Date Rule Smith tells the story of a man who once worked in Canada and moved back to the United States, assuming she was not interested, only to return years later and tell her he had imagined marrying her and staying in Canada. Smith says she cried for a week, having felt the same but never saying so, and only later told him the truth herself. Masters calls it two people equally afraid to move first. Smith reflects that past rejection keeps living in the present unless people feel it rather than retell its story. She describes being labeled too picky by friends, defending her habit of giving nice but unexciting men several dates rather than judging on chemistry alone, citing her own three-date rule and a run of six or seven dates with one man before deciding he was simply not for her. Masters offers her own rule, that a relationship feeling instantly like home can be a warning rather than comfort, especially for people from difficult homes. Meeting Michael and Choosing to Love Smith recounts lying about her age on the dating app Hinge to widen her matches, getting banned after confessing the truth to a man she liked, before describing how she actually met her husband, Michael, her childhood crush from grade three in Richmond, British Columbia. Reconnecting during the pandemic, the two begin FaceTime calls they nickname Scotch Time, and Smith eventually tells him about her old chocolate chip cookie pattern so she can ask, instead of wait, to be asked out. She explains love as something built with intention rather than something people simply fall into, describing the Create the Love card deck she used on early dates and a running shared note called I Forking Love You Saturdays. She says the sign she was waiting for before marrying arrived as her mother's voice telling her he was the one. Masters closes the hour thanking Smith, pointing listeners to her book, and reminding them to keep choosing themselves.