Beverage Chronicles

Craft Beer's Loyalty Gap, Wine Value Myths, Brand Consistency, and NFL Beer Price Shock

Gary Monterosso reviews new survey data on craft beer loyalty, wine expert John Mahoney answers listener questions on pricey bottles and summer whites, branding contributor Leslie Jespersen makes the case for consistency over novelty, and Monterosso closes with a look at soaring beer prices at NFL stadiums.

Craft Beer's Loyal Fans Versus A Shrinking Audience

Gary Monterosso opens the show with new numbers from the Brewers Association's Harris Poll consumer survey, which paints a mixed picture for craft beer. He reports that eighty five percent of people who already call themselves craft drinkers now say they drink craft beer at least monthly, up ten points from last year and the strongest showing since 2019 or 2020. Brewery visits are up too, averaging five and a half trips a year, and more of those visitors are buying extra product in the taproom and trying multiple brands each month. But Monterosso notes the trouble sits outside that loyal circle: monthly craft consumption among the general population actually fell, and nearly half of drinkers say they never touch craft beer at all. He points to survey data showing many non-drinkers dislike the flavor, or admit they are not even sure what craft beer is supposed to taste like, suggesting an image problem as much as a taste one.

John Mahoney Weighs In On Pricey Bottles

Gary Monterosso hands the show over to John Mahoney, who hosts New Jersey Wine Radio and returns to Beverage Chronicles to answer listener wine questions. A caller asks whether a hundred dollar Cabernet or Merlot is really five times better than a twenty dollar bottle, and Mahoney says absolutely not. He suggests a simple test: gather friends, buy one bottle at each price point, cover them in brown paper bags so nobody knows which is which, then compare notes. Mahoney says the pricier bottle might show a touch more color or fragrance, but it will not taste three or five times richer or more complex than its cheaper counterpart. The exchange sets a practical, no-nonsense tone for his segment, aimed at helping everyday wine drinkers spend with more confidence and less assumption that price alone signals quality, a message Mahoney delivers with his usual plainspoken enthusiasm for the subject.

A Tour Of Summer White Wines

A second question sends John Mahoney into a long list of white wine recommendations for a listener who already enjoys Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay. He suggests branching out into Albariño, Chenin Blanc, and the spicy Gewürztraminer, along with Riesling, Sémillon, and Viognier. For lighter summer sipping he mentions Aligoté, Greek Assyrtiko, and Italian Fiano, and as the weather heats up he says he personally reaches for Austrian Grüner Veltliner, Marsanne from southern France, Muscadet, Palomino, Pinot Blanc, and Roussanne. Mahoney rounds out the tour with Torrontés, Verdejo, Italian Vermentino, and a Spanish white he drinks often, Viura. He frames the whole list as an invitation to experiment beyond familiar bottles and expand a wine drinker's palate through the warmer months. Mahoney closes his segment with his signature sign-off, telling listeners in vino veritas and to drink well for the rest of the summer.

Leslie Jespersen Makes The Case For Consistency

Marketing and branding contributor Leslie Jespersen takes over the show to argue that consistency, not novelty, is what actually keeps consumers loyal to a beverage brand. She calls consistency the most boring strategy in marketing, saying nobody gets excited about a favorite brand staying exactly the same, yet it is one of the biggest reasons people keep buying it. Jespersen asks listeners to imagine their favorite coffee, beer, or dinner-party wine suddenly tasting different, changing its can design, or rebranding to a new audience, and how quickly that would create doubt about whether it is even the same product. She says consumers claim to love surprises but really crave reliability, and that the phrase my usual is one of the highest compliments a brand can earn because it means the brand has become a trusted, permanent part of someone's routine. Jespersen closes by pointing listeners to her own website for more branding commentary.

NFL Game Day Costs Keep Climbing

Gary Monterosso returns with research from FinanceBuzz on the rising cost of attending an NFL game, timed to a new season that opened with a Super Bowl rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. He reports that league-wide game day costs, covering tickets, parking, beer, and hot dogs, have climbed seventy two percent over the past decade to an average of one hundred ninety six dollars per person, though costs actually dropped slightly in New Orleans and Indianapolis. Monterosso singles out the Detroit Lions, where the total price of attending a game rose from about ninety eight dollars in 2015 to four hundred twenty nine dollars last year, a three hundred thirty six percent jump. Beer prices draw special attention: a sixteen ounce beer that cost five dollars a decade ago now runs about twelve dollars at MetLife Stadium and twelve thirty five for Cleveland Browns fans, with Cincinnati Bengals fans paying roughly eleven forty nine.

Closing Out The Show

To close the episode, Gary Monterosso thanks both contributors, telling listeners it is always a special treat to welcome John Mahoney and Leslie Jespersen to the show. He points listeners toward Mahoney's personal site, johnjmahoney.com, for more wine reviews, and to Jespersen's site, lesliejespersen.com, for more of her branding and consumer behavior commentary. Monterosso wraps up by describing Beverage Chronicles as a source for the people, places, ideas, and stories shaping the beverage world, promising continued coverage of industry news, trends, and the personalities behind them. He invites listeners who enjoyed the program to share it with a friend, follow the show on social media, and visit online for more interviews and behind-the-scenes content. Monterosso signs off with his usual send-off, encouraging the audience to stay curious, stay connected, and make time for the moments that bring people together, before the closing theme music plays out the episode.

The Church of the Souls Evolution with The Reverend Blake Rubie

The Tunnel of Light, God's Jail, and a Guided Tour of Heaven's Flowers and Animals

In a solo, thirty-minute broadcast, Reverend Blake Rubie walks listeners through the moment of death, the spirit's journey down the tunnel of light, hell as God's jail, and a vivid tour of heaven's colors, living flowers, and animals that no longer eat each other.

A Shorter Show and a New Book Reference

Reverend Blake Rubie opens The Church of the Soul's Evolution on Saturday, September 19th, thanking Doug at BBS Radio and TV for a new theme song, "Grey Brain, Golden Soul," a seven-minute piece from which listeners hear only a clip. He tells the audience today's topic is heaven and what to expect there, drawing on his own book, The Grey Brain and the Golden Soul, an eighty-page Kindle title with thirty chapters of spirituality and evolution material. Rubie explains he has trimmed his program from fifty-five minutes down to thirty, saying at seventy-two he wants to conserve his energy for a busy retirement that already includes membership in four Toastmasters clubs and a Toastmasters meeting earlier that morning, plus exercise planned for right after the show. He apologizes to longtime listeners who may miss the longer format before turning to his main subject: what actually happens to a person at the moment of death.

The Spirit Leaves the Body

Rubie explains that every person carries a spirit made of light, translucent and shot through with billions of electrons, comparable, he says, to the glowing figure Patrick Swayze becomes at the end of the movie Ghost. At the body's expiration date, whether from accident, illness, or old age, the spirit pops free and can move by thought or fly. He teaches that souls are born on suns rather than planets, since the sun is the true source of light and the seat of the spirit world, and that other species across the universe are born on their own suns in the same way. Older souls, he suggests, may have lived many lives already, evolving through reincarnation across a universe divided into nine categories of planets from lowest to highest, with Earth ranked as a category one world still struggling near the bottom of that spiritual scale.

Mother and Father God and the Birth of New Spirits

Rubie describes the mother and father God as spirit parents living ninety-three million miles away on the sun, soulmates who evolved through countless lifetimes on other planets before reaching the highest category of existence. He says new spirits are created when the two merge, their united thoughts and spoken words giving birth to a baby spirit that eventually grows old enough to be born onto a planet, sometimes Earth. He compares this spiritual merging loosely to human reproduction while stressing it works differently, guided purely by shared intent rather than physical union. Rubie adds that the spirit shares the physical body's features and even its organs, arranged in something like a mirror image, and that spirits can eat, drink, and feel pain much as people do. He also describes the spirit's nightly excursions during sleep, when it leaves the body to work through daytime worries and returns before waking, provided a person gets seven or eight hours of rest.

God's Jail and the Logic of Forgiveness

Rubie turns to what he calls the other direction some spirits travel: down into the Earth's core, a realm of lava beds and dark caverns he identifies as hell, or God's jail, overseen by Archangel Lucifer. Souls who committed serious sins, he says, do their time there and rehabilitate rather than suffer eternal damnation, using Hitler as his example of someone who might have been shaped by childhood abuse or by a role the mother and father God intended so humanity could eventually learn to move beyond its warring ways. Rubie argues that if earthly mothers and fathers would not condemn a child to endless suffering over a mistake, heavenly parents, being still more loving, surely would not either, calling this reasoning irrefutable. He then describes the freed spirit itself as the real, pure self, lighter and more mobile than the body, with vision spanning three hundred sixty degrees and senses sharper than anything experienced while alive on Earth.

Down the Tunnel Toward the Light

Rubie describes the more common journey after death, down a circular, light-blue tunnel toward a distant pinprick of light, ninety-three million miles away on the sun, an image he ties to the book and film 90 Minutes in Heaven, in which a man struck by a semi truck arrives at the Pearly Gates and is met by deceased relatives. He explains that travelers can likewise be greeted by angels or by loved ones going back generations, and that not everyone completes the trip: some become ghosts still wandering Earth's surface, unaware they have died, especially those killed suddenly and violently. Rubie also revisits the pre-existence, the state before birth, describing how a warrior angel escorts every unborn spirit from the sun down through the atmosphere and into the mother's womb, and suggesting that babies may retain a dim memory of looking out through their mother's eyes during that nine-month, submerged existence before entering the world.

A Guided Tour of Heaven's Light and Living Flowers

Arriving at last in that world of light, Rubie says, spirits behold colors more vivid than any on Earth, some found nowhere else, and living flowers, including roses whose intricate inner parts turn to watch onlookers pass. Advanced souls may arrive by a more direct route, a chariot sent by Archangel Gabriel, and everyone is eventually reunited with deceased relatives, pets, and old friends from other lifetimes on other planets, since he considers all souls one large, interrelated family. He describes fields of green grass walked barefoot, robes of white shining according to one's spiritual development, and trees of the Tree of Life bearing edible fruit. Notably, he says, lions, tigers, and lambs there no longer eat one another, unlike on violent Earth, which he blames in part for humanity's wars. Running short on his newly shortened thirty minutes, Rubie promises to continue next week, offering a closing blessing and love to his listeners before signing off.

The Jim Craine Show

Steel Pier Memories, Smithville Italian Fest Plans, and The Association's Story with James Yester (Jim Yester of the Musical sunshine pop group called the Association)

Jim Craine broadcasts from the Pleasantville Music Shop ahead of the Smithville Italian Festival and talks with longtime friend Jim Yester, founding member of The Association, about the band's 61-year history, its biggest hits, and life on the road.

A Pre-Taped Saturday From Pleasantville

Jim Craine opens the show explaining this is a pre-recorded broadcast since he'll be performing the next day at the Smithville Italian Festival. He broadcasts from the Pleasantville Music Shop, noting the perfect southern New Jersey weather and previewing the day's main event: a phone conversation with Jim Yester, a founding member of The Association. Craine then turns to his recurring sponsor bit, introducing his character Dr. Boris in a spooky voice to read through the sponsor list, opening with Pleasantville Music Shop's 87 years in business, followed by Copiers Plus in Egg Harbor Township and its owner Bobby Matthews, The Maplewood Inns of Hammonton, Vineland, and Mays Landing, and the Dr. Jonathan Pitney House and Colonial Inn bed and breakfasts in Absecon and Smithville. Dr. Boris reads out the show's call-in number and signs off, handing the show back to Craine, who confirms the timing of the broadcast and previews more news about the Smithville festival before the interview begins.

Smithville Italian Festival Preview

Craine spends time detailing his own gig the next day at the Smithville Italian Festival, where he and his band, the Atlantic City All-Stars, play from 11:30 to 4:30, admission free. He names the players joining him: Tony DeLuca on piano, accordion, and cornet, Andy Lawless on bass, Ray Nunzi on drums, and Johnny Guida. Craine promises food vendors selling sausage, onions, and peppers, plus beer and wine, and urges listeners to come find him. He circles back to promoting Pleasantville Music Shop itself, describing its Black Horse Pike location, its 87 years serving the Jersey Shore, its rental programs for local schools, and its new fall back-to-school push. Craine mentions that CD sales in the shop benefit the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, run by Bob Schoelkopf and Sheila Dean, who care for seals, turtles, and dolphins at their museum on Brigantine Boulevard, before setting up the interview with Jim Yester.

The Godfather Plugs Maplewood Inns

Before bringing on his guest, Craine introduces another recurring bit, handing the microphone to his Marlon Brando-voiced character The Godfather, who delivers a comic pitch for The Maplewood Inns locations in Hammonton and Vineland. The Godfather praises the veal parmesan, chicken parmesan, and clams casino, jokes that listeners should bring a wife or girlfriend but never both on the same night, and notes the restaurants cater parties as well. He gives the Maplewood Inns his mock approval and reminds listeners that The Jim Craine Show airs Saturdays from two to three Central time on bbsradio.com. Craine returns to close the bit and announces that Jim Yester is finally ready to join the show by phone, teasing a bit about wanting to sing a parody of Never My Love with Dr. Boris before getting serious and welcoming his old friend onto the air for the main interview segment of the broadcast.

Jim Yester Recalls The Association's Origins

Craine welcomes Jim Yester, a friend since 1967 when Craine first saw The Association at the Steel Pier, and the two joke warmly before Yester explains that the band is celebrating its 61st year, having formed on February 10th, 1965. Yester, who grew up in Burbank, credits his father, a professional accordion and keyboard player who arranged the Everybody's Favorites songbook series, for his own musical start. He describes the Troubadour's Monday night Hootenanny sessions in Hollywood, where musicians between groups gathered to sing folk standards, eventually forming a thirteen-man group called The Men. After personality conflicts, six members walked out to Terry Kirkman's apartment and became The Association that same day, nearly naming themselves The Aristocrats before Kirkman's girlfriend found the word "association" in the dictionary. Yester recalls the group's early residency at The Ice House folk club in Pasadena before their first hit sent them on the road.

Behind Along Comes Mary, Never My Love, and Cherish

Yester walks Craine through the stories behind three of The Association's signature songs. Along Comes Mary, he says, became their breakthrough single after their Ice House run. He recalls that Never My Love arrived when songwriting brothers the Addrisi Brothers showed up at the band's shared West LA house, rowing an imaginary boat with a guitar paddle before playing the song live, and Yester notes it remains the second most-played song in BMI's catalog. Terry Kirkman, he says, wrote Cherish after a publisher initially objected that the title word was too archaic, a story the band turned into a running joke about having their cake and eating it too. Craine mentions slow dancing to Cherish at the Melody Lounge in Atlantic City and recalls backing Yester at Lucy the Elephant, while Yester also touches on his brother's stint in The Lovin' Spoonful, replacing bandmate Zal before the two later became a production team behind Pat Boone's Red Sails in the Sunset.

Ed Sullivan Memories and a Warm Sign-Off

Yester tells Craine that the current lineup includes original member Jules, drummer Bruce Pictor since 1985, returning member Paul Holland, bassist Joe Lamanno, and keyboardist Gary Swan, and that the band recently played the Nixon Center in Newnan, Georgia. He recalls appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show more than once, praising Sullivan as a gentleman who insisted every performance be sung live rather than lip-synched. He and Craine also discuss this year's Happy Together Tour alongside the Cowsills and The Vogues, and Craine mentions mutual friend Cathy Rich, Buddy Rich's daughter, and her big-band arrangement of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead. Craine thanks Yester warmly, promising to host him again at the music shop, before signing off with a Maplewood Inns spot and playing Without Love, a song his friend Billy Crashner of Longport wrote for him, which he dedicates to his wife Joanne. Craine closes with his usual Red Skelton farewell and the show's theme song.

Sudden I Impact

Non-Serving Patterns to Be Interrupted, Part 3: Money Beliefs, Identity, and Living by Design

In the third installment of his series on non-beneficial and non-serving patterns, host Dwight Lee traces how song lyrics, childhood memories, and inherited beliefs quietly program people against money, then offers a framework for identifying and rewriting those beliefs. The episode is a solo lecture, with no outside guest.

Picking Up Part Three of the Series

Dwight Lee opens the show by anchoring the episode in his larger series, reminding listeners that this third installment on non-beneficial and non-serving patterns builds directly on the first two parts. He introduces the idea that speech is image in mind, explaining that spoken words and mental pictures work together to compare an undesired reality against a desired one. To show how popular culture quietly programs people against money, he walks through two songs, Blackstreet's Money Can't Buy Me Love and Notorious B.I.G.'s Mo Money Mo Problems. Lee argues both songs, heard casually for years on the radio, teach listeners that money is unnecessary or that it brings only conflict and problems. He calls this conditioning and paradigm building, insisting it happens without most people ever noticing. He closes the segment by asking listeners to begin questioning where their own beliefs about money actually came from.

Childhood Memories and the Language of Spending

Lee moves into the heart of the hour by asking listeners to revisit their earliest memories of money. He asks whether they recall caretakers arguing over money, tense conversations about bills, or someone leaving a household because of financial conflict, arguing these early scenes shape a person's lifelong association with money. He returns to his idea that speech is image in mind, asking what picture appears and what a person says internally while paying for something, whether it is that costs too much, I don't have enough, or money comes in slow and goes out fast. He insists how a person talks to themselves is how they talk to everyone and everything else, since all relationships operate on a one-to-one ratio. To make this concrete, Lee contrasts shopping at Walmart, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Family Dollar with shopping at Sprouts, Macy's, Dillard's, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue, arguing the environment a person frequents reveals their self-image and self-concept.

Adopted, Gifted, and Inherited Beliefs

Lee then explains that people rarely hold beliefs of their own, distinguishing gifted beliefs learned through school, church, and the marketplace, adopted beliefs passed down from parents, and inherited beliefs carried from grandparents and ancestors reaching back as many as fourteen generations. He challenges listeners to write down every money narrative they can recall, reciting a long list of familiar lines such as money doesn't grow on trees, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, money is scarce, and money is hard to come by and hard to keep. He stresses that these phrases build a paradigm against wanting money and cannot be adjusted until a person becomes aware of them. At the same time, Lee insists money is not optional in what he calls this dispensation, since it is required for housing, utilities, transportation, food, and clothing, making a healthy relationship with money a practical necessity rather than a spiritual failing.

The Four Loops and the Inner Observer

Lee describes four repeating cycles he calls the survival loop, the failure loop, the overcoming loop, and the struggle loop, explaining that the brain's dual job is to keep a person safe and to prove them right, so whatever story a person believes keeps replaying in their outer circumstances. He links the overcoming loop to cortisol and stress hormones, arguing people can become chemically hooked on moving from one battle to the next. The only way out, he says, is to become the observer of one's own thoughts, speech, and mental pictures, writing them down until the pattern becomes visible. Lee then raises the stakes, telling listeners they are the power source and the creator of their own reality, invoking the biblical name I Am That I Am from Exodus and the instruction to work out one's salvation with fear and trembling. He reminds the audience that each person is the only thinker, feeler, and actor for themselves, and that no one else can do this inner work on their behalf.

Identity, Pedestals, and Changing Environments

Turning to identity, Lee tells listeners that they do not get what they want, they get who they are being, and he assigns homework to examine adopted, gifted, and inherited beliefs about both money and self. He warns that elevating money above oneself, treating it as a pedestal or a false god, makes it nearly impossible to keep, since an unbalanced root chakra means a person lacks the energetic capacity to hold onto wealth once it arrives; the fix, he says, is to become equal to or greater than money rather than beneath it. He again urges listeners to change the environments they frequent, moving beyond Walmart, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Family Dollar toward stores such as Macy's, Dillard's, Neiman Marcus, Burberry, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdale's so their awareness expands beyond impoverished settings. Citing Ike and Bob Proctor, Lee repeats that whatever can be seen in the mind can eventually be held in the hand, and that lack, struggle, scarcity, and poverty must first leave the mind before they leave a person's life.

Heaven, Hell, and the Power of Thought

In the closing stretch, Lee frames two possible states: an undesired reality of suffering, frustration, irritation, pain, and trauma that he calls hell, and a desired reality of neutrality, love, peace, and serenity that he calls heaven, with the difference determined by a person's identity, emotions, assumptions, and beliefs. He contrasts negative examples, such as believing nothing ever works out or that no one in the family has ever had money, with positive versions like I'm the one who always has enough and I can make money doing what I love. He insists people do not merely hold beliefs, beliefs hold them, and that everyone is inherently worthy and deserving simply because they exist, with nothing to earn. Lee closes the episode by stacking quotations from James Allen's As a Man Thinketh, Bob Proctor, King Solomon, Buddha, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Ford, all reinforcing that thought shapes character and circumstance, before the show moves into its closing theme music and the announcer signs off, introducing Dwight Lee as the Master of Transformation from the DFW Metroplex.

Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean

I'm Not Talking To A Third-World Country: Draft Fears, Voter Fraud, and a Nation Under Judgment

Broadcasting alone from Sons of Liberty Radio, Bradlee Dean argues that America's own corruption, not any third-world nation, is driving the country toward a military draft, rigged elections and cultural collapse, playing clips from Marjorie Taylor Greene and Michigan Sheriff Dar Leaf and taking a call from Ken in West Virginia.

A Pre-Recorded Warning On Social Credit

The broadcast opens with a pre-recorded segment in which Bradlee Dean walks through China's social credit system, describing how the government there scores citizens on compliance and imposes travel bans, school bans, hotel bans, internet throttling, career blocks and public shaming on those who fall out of favor. Dean argues elements of the same system were tested on Americans during the pandemic and warns that Washington is simultaneously pursuing a cashless currency and a domestic score system of its own, framing both as government assuming authority never delegated by the people. He cites what he calls the biblical purpose of government, restraining sin and maintaining order, and closes the segment with a recording of Declaration of Independence signer Elbridge Gerry's Thanksgiving prayer thanking Providence for the gospel before the network's statement describing Sons of Liberty as a Christian, biblical-worldview broadcast leads into the live show's theme music.

Ayn Rand, Joe McCarthy, and a Princeton Stop

Live on the air, Dean greets "friends as well as a few enemies," reminds listeners he will headline an event that evening at the Princeton Civic Center in Princeton, Minnesota, and gives out the show's booking and call-in numbers. He revisits novelist Ayn Rand's 1957 warning that a society is doomed once men grow richer through graft and favors than through work while laws protect the corrupt rather than the honest, and argues history has likewise vindicated Senator Joseph McCarthy's Cold War warnings that the press once mocked. Dean ties both to Matthew 22:37's command to love God and neighbor, arguing Americans were meant to govern themselves rather than let the state erect offices to police them. He restates his recurring theme that today's left is simply "the fruit of" a right that never governed rightly, framing government's true purpose under 1 John 3:4 as condemning the wicked and restraining sin.

The Draft, Kissinger, and Ken In West Virginia

Dean plays an online video clip warning that every American male aged 18 to 26 must register for the draft starting in December, recalling that 1.9 million were drafted for Vietnam and 58,000 came home dead. He pairs the clip with Henry Kissinger's remark calling military men "dumb, stupid animals" used as pawns, and quotes Marine General Smedley Butler's description of war as a racket that turns children into "cheap, disposable meat" for profiteering politicians. Dean contrasts a retired president's reported $450,000 lifetime salary and lawmakers' six-figure pensions with a deployed soldier's roughly $38,000 annual pay, arguing the incentives are backward. Caller Ken from West Virginia phones in agreeing that corporations, banks and government are colluding, calling it fascism, before Dean cuts to a hard break promising to return to Ken's point about wars fought on Israel's behalf once the show resumes.

Genocide, Ball Games, and Marjorie Taylor Greene

Back from break, Ken continues, saying the world's silence over Palestinian deaths previews how it will react when Americans themselves are targeted, and says he is nearly ready to let apathetic citizens who prefer "ball games" over defending freedom face the draft. Dean answers by describing his own work raising young people, quoting Thomas Paine's wish that trouble come "in my time rather than my children's time," and walking through the Constitution's preamble on justice, common defense and securing liberty "to our posterity." He then plays a clip of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene questioning why America keeps entering "every single war Israel wants us to" while censoring dissent online, telling listeners to take her claim seriously even while questioning her credibility, since Sons of Liberty says it invited her on the show without response.

Whitmer's Decrees and Judge Roy Moore's Vindication

Dean turns to Michigan, recalling that the state Supreme Court eventually ruled roughly 1,100 of Governor Whitmer's pandemic-era decrees unconstitutional, then noting that days after that ruling the FBI announced a plot to kidnap her, a case in which he says two defendants were later fully acquitted and are now pursuing the bureau. He calls the timing a replay of the pattern he saw around January 6th, agencies manufacturing victims to discourage dissent, and lists Waco, Oklahoma City, Ruby Ridge and September 11th as examples of the same pattern. Dean then recounts Judge Roy Moore's account of being falsely accused of womanizing by allies of Senate leader Mitch McConnell after opposing removal of the Ten Commandments, saying Moore told him on air that he won an $8.2 million judgment against the media outlets involved, which Dean holds up as proof that standing firm against false accusation pays off.

Sheriff Dar Leaf's Evidence and a Closing Warning

Dean plays a recorded update from Barry County, Michigan Sheriff Dar Leaf, who says Secretary of State supervisors gave him scripted refusals to discuss a whistleblower report that noncitizens are automatically registered to vote when they change address, and that evidence shows senior officials ordered staff not to cooperate, which he calls obstruction of justice. Dean links the case to a broader claim of massive voter fraud, arguing high-profile Democratic officials including Governors Whitmer, Newsom, Walz and New York's Zohran Mamdani were never genuinely elected. He cites CAIR's claim that 255 Muslims now hold elected office nationwide, questions how that fits a Minnesota population he estimates at 180,000 Muslims among 5.9 million residents, and plays a clip of a hijab-wearing Minneapolis police officer speaking Arabic on camera. Dean closes reminding listeners of Sunday church service and that evening's Princeton, Minnesota appearance.

The Joyful Manifestation Show with Iyer

From the Mind to the Body: A Cruise Ship Magician, Vibration, and Manifesting Money, Career, and Soulmate Love

Fresh off two back-to-back cruises, Suganthi Iyer recounts a shipboard magician whose "Sixth Sense" act reads minds and manifests a rose's scent, then uses it as a springboard into money, career, and soulmate manifestation.

Back From The Cruise, Into The Magician's Act

Suganthi Iyer opens the show explaining a brief network hiccup that pushes her to switch from her phone carrier to her home Wi-Fi, then turns to the two cruises she has just returned from. She describes a shipboard magician whose show, called Sixth Sense, felt different from a previous cruise's performer, who told her flatly that his routines were only tricks. This time she volunteers, rolls a die, covers it with her hand, and privately tries to fool the magician by imagining a different number before settling back on the real one. He calls out the correct number and even describes her mental switch. She recounts other feats from the same act: a volunteer identifying a sipped soda by feeling its energy, and a blindfolded married couple who each sense a strand of hair tickling the wife's nose and cheek from eight feet apart.

A Math Trick And A Blindfolded Reading

Suganthi continues recounting the same shipboard show, describing a math trick in which several audience members multiply random numbers, many drawn from their own phone codes, until the total matches a figure the magician had already sealed inside an envelope before the routine began. She places this beside an earlier experience at a psychic course, where a blindfolded woman, her eyes packed so thickly that Suganthi tested the wrap herself and could see nothing, correctly read the digits on a stranger's credit card and described what he was wearing. Suganthi acknowledges the impulse to dismiss such moments as hogwash, but insists these abilities are real and that other people build careers around them. She says the magic show alone made the whole cruise worth its cost, confirming for her, all over again, that some people are genuinely gifted at manifestation.

Turning A Rose Trick Into A Lesson On Vibration

Back from a music break, Suganthi turns to money manifestation but first finishes the magician's story. He asks the audience who believes in manifestation, then calls up a volunteer and walks her through imagining a rose in her hand. The first time he asks her to smell it, she says she cannot, but after further visualization she lifts her hands to her nose and does smell rose, and other audience members who sniff her palms report the same fragrance. Suganthi treats this as proof of a principle she repeats as a slogan, from the mind to the body, arguing that everything in the universe, including a scent, carries its own vibration, like a musical note. In her account the magician aligned the volunteer with that vibration while the rest of the audience, not being walked through the same process, simply watched without truly registering what he said.

Applying Vibration To Career, Money, And Google

Suganthi applies the same idea to career and money manifestation, telling listeners to imagine, in physical sensory detail, working at a company they want, using Google as her example. She recalls working there herself in accounting and remembers the free food, snacks and drinks always available to staff. She urges listeners to picture the cafeteria, the smell of the food, the feel of the workplace, using every physical sense, sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing, to build alignment with that life before it exists. She frames this as literally inviting the desired job in, repeating a phrase like come to me, Google work atmosphere, as an example of the kind of internal invitation she means. Returning to the rose demonstration, she argues that the volunteer's hands physically carried the scent, proof that manifestation moves from the mind into the body rather than staying purely imaginary, and that money, like rose scent, has its own vibration waiting to be matched.

Joy As The Standard Of Success

Suganthi reads from a Law of Attraction card by Esther and Jerry Hicks, The Teachings of Abraham, whose message is to the degree I am happy, I am successful, and whose expanded text argues that letting joy be one's standard of success, rather than any trophy, money or relationship, brings a person into vibrational alignment with the resources of the universe. She is careful to add that the card does not mean people should stop working toward goals, only that pursuing them from a place of joy matters. She illustrates the point with an imagined dancer picturing herself performing and bowing in Las Vegas, and with a fictitious woman named Jane who has not yet reached her goals but visits the ocean, feels calmed and happy watching the waves, and raises her vibration simply by spending time there. In Suganthi's reading of Abraham's teaching, that rise in personal joy, wherever it comes from, is what allows success to arrive.

Soulmate Cords, Good Feelings, And Signing Off

In the final minutes, Suganthi turns to soulmate, love and sex manifestation, returning once more to the married couple from the cruise whose shared sensation she takes as physical proof that soulmates are connected by cords or pipes of energy running between them. She suggests that whatever one partner feels or sends, whether trust and warmth or doubt and negativity, travels along that connection to the other, and she encourages listeners to close their eyes and consciously send positive feeling to a partner. She reflects on the intense attraction of a first meeting, before ego complicates things, and describes herself as someone who feels good feelings easily and can act as a channel or vessel for them. Suganthi closes by inviting listeners to return next Friday at seven p.m. Pacific for The Good Fortune Show and signs off wishing everyone a good week. A station announcer then lists the show's syndication across more than one hundred digital stations, international outlets and podcast platforms.

Hard News on Friday with Tara Green and Rama Arjuna

Mayan Calendar Rituals, the 1999 MLK Trial and a New Beginnings Meditation with Tori

Hosts Rainbird, Tara Green and Rama Arjuna mark the autumn equinox with a Mayan calendar reading, revisit the 1999 civil trial over Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, and close with a channeled dialogue and a recorded new-beginnings meditation from guest Tori.

Opening Meditation and Mayan Calendar Reading

Rainbird opens the broadcast with a slow breathing exercise, inviting listeners into their heart space to gather guides, guardians, totems and ancestors around a virtual council fire. Drumming with a Cimi drum, she calls in the seven galactic directions of the Mayan tradition, chanting "Ah Yum Hunab Ku, Evam Maya, E Ma Ho" and "In Lak'ech Ala K'in." She then reads the Mayan day-count for the coming week, starting with today's Blue Planetary Night, a 10 Akbal, Saturday's Yellow Spectral Seed, Sunday's Red Crystal Serpent, Monday's White Cosmic World-Bridger, and Tuesday's autumn equinox, which opens a new thirteen-day wave of Manik'. She continues through Wednesday's Yellow Lunar Star and Thursday's Red Electric Moon before closing the week with next Friday's White Self-Existing Dog. For each glyph she offers a mantra and urges listeners to release fear, self-doubt, insecurity or stagnation while embracing healing, intuition and unconditional love. She notes a first-quarter moon at 4:44 p.m. Eastern.

Listener Support and Weekly Needs

Rainbird shifts into the weekly funding appeal, explaining that BBS Radio needs $184 for the Friday program's slot on Station One and directing listeners to bbsradio.com, where the show is listed under the Hard News heading at the 8:00 hour. She promotes Saturday's program on Station Two, The True History/Earth's Destiny of NESARA and Galactic Origins, at the 3:30 hour. She says Tara and Rama need $200 a week for living expenses, plus $510 toward rent due at the start of next month, and gives the PayPal address [email protected], Rama's email [email protected], and a mailing address for Ram D. Berkowitz at a post office box in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. She points listeners to rainbowroundtable.net for updates and a GoFundMe covering Tara and Rama's medical needs. Calling it a season of harvest and fall equinox, she thanks the audience before ceremonially passing a talking stick to Tara and Rama, who greet the "commanders, eagles and angels" listening in.

Rama and Tara Open With Palestine, Trump and Mars

Rama takes the talking stick and reports sitting in silence with twelve deer, nine crows and two cats at a bird sanctuary before leading a Gayatri mantra for world peace, saying he is closely watching solar flares and the Schumann resonance. He relays a message he attributes to a contact called Rosa from Palestine, describing the story of the twelve tribes, the Lion of Judah and Yeshua's teachings, and asserting that King David and King Solomon were Black. Tara raises news of protests over Donald Trump's actions against the Kennedy Center, and Rama predicts bureaucratic obstacles will stop him tearing it down. He connects the moment to what he calls systemic racism rooted in colonization, comparing it to Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars, which he says the Galactic Federation will not permit, and recounts a story that Noah was "an amphibious starship captain." The pair also discuss Trump's invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Washington, with Rama speculating Xi has contact with "the galactics."

Rama's Week of Field Reports

Rama reads a string of dated dispatches from September 11 through 17, describing daily visits to Sun Mountain, Abiquiu, the I Am Sanctuary, Aspen Meadows and Moon Mountain, where he sits and walks in circles with deer, crows, ravens, a bobcat and, once, an elk, using the Adi Shakti or Gayatri mantras. He recounts text messages he says arrive from figures he calls the crew, Tom, Mr. X, Lady Nada and Darby O'Dowd, describing a glowing Glastonbury Tor, tectonic and magnetic shifts, and singing stones at Orkney in Scotland. Reports attributed to the poppy lady and Rosa from Palestine describe a collapsing healthcare system in Gaza and unverified claims that Benjamin Netanyahu received bribes from Jeffrey Epstein. The dispatches also mention an International Peace Tower due to be lit in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 8, John Lennon's birthday, and Darby O'Dowd's line that he gets his news "from the stars." Each entry closes with the phrase "blaze the violet fire."

Tara's Look Back at the King Assassination Trial

Tara turns to a report on what she calls the only trial ever held over the death of Martin Luther King Jr., a civil case decided in Memphis in December 1999 that she says mainstream media covered only briefly. She describes Coretta Scott King saying she felt vindicated by the jury's finding that her husband was killed as part of a conspiracy rather than by a lone gunman, and quotes King family attorney William Pepper, author of The Plot to Kill King, saying the jury heard evidence that "exonerated James Earl Ray." Tara also reads comments attributed to the couple's son, Dexter King, calling the verdict bittersweet but ultimately liberating. She stresses that the verdict does not, in her telling, implicate Ray in the killing, pushing back on what she calls competing spins. As the segment closes, Tara and Rama read out the conference-call number and PIN for listeners who want to continue the conversation off air.

Channeling Mother and Tori's New Beginnings Meditation

Tara and Rama invoke Saint Germain and the violet flame to open a channeled dialogue with a presence they address as Mother, voiced through Rama. Mother touches on Martin Luther King's "promised land," the depths of the Mariana Trench, beluga whales lost to fishing nets, and people she says are "going over the rainbow" as their bodies adjust to incoming energies, while warning that Congress may soon be recalled over unfinished business. Rama and Tara close the invocation with a chant of "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, Adonai Tzva'ot." They then introduce a recorded guided meditation from a presenter named Tori, titled Releasing What Has Been, Receiving What Is Coming, built around the recent eclipse series, the violet flame and the "I Am" presence, leading listeners through breathing and visualization to release old patterns and open to new beginnings. Afterward, Tara and Rama thank their audience and pass the talking stick back to Rainbird, who closes the broadcast with thanks to Mother and Tori.

The Metaphysical Hour with Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan

A Video from the RETREAT!

Dragon Energy, Simultaneous Lifetimes, Protecting Your Field, and Contact From the Other Side

Recorded live in front of a retreat audience, Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan of The Metaphysical Hour take audience questions on simultaneous lifetimes, protecting empathic energy, QHHT past-life research, and signs from loved ones and extraterrestrial contact, with Tiffany moderating from the crowd.

Lighting the Grid at the Retreat

Julia Cannon opens the recording by asking the live retreat audience to call out where they are from, describing the exercise as a way of lighting up a shared energetic grid with each person's heart light. Voices ring out from Orlando, Denver, Montreal, Seattle, and beyond as Julia encourages the crowd to keep going. Tracie Mahan then explains the show's regular broadcast time, Friday nights on BBS Radio and YouTube, and introduces Tiffany, affectionately called Butterfly Tiffany or Princess Tiffany, who normally moderates questions from the back office. Tracie tells viewers watching later that this session is being recorded rather than streamed live, since it is happening in person during the retreat. The hosts turn to the retreat's atmosphere itself, noting a recurring dragon theme all week, including a small dragon figurine on every hotel dresser, and asking how many guests know their own dragon guide or were born in the Year of the Dragon.

Simultaneous Lifetimes and Parallel Timelines

Tiffany reads the first audience question, asking whether lifetimes can overlap within what people think of as linear time. Julia Cannon answers by recalling how she first encountered these ideas reading the Seth books in the late nineteen-seventies, struggling to absorb their dense concept of simultaneous time until a vivid mental image stayed with her: a multilayered, transparent game board on which moves on one level affected the others. She says she now understands that image as a picture of how many lives are lived at once. Tracie Mahan builds on the idea, describing how a soul can love a particular era enough to start a parallel life running alongside the current one, so that everyone in the room becomes, in a sense, an aspect of one another and of source. She reminds the audience to use discernment, keeping only what resonates and letting the rest go, and Julia praises her use of the word "platform" to describe these layered realities.

Water, Moon Energy, and a Playful Mix-Up

Asked about intelligent water, Tracie Mahan points to the animated film Frozen II, where water is shown holding memory, and compares that idea to the practice of blessing water and to experiments that suggest water responds to words and intention. She calls water a living consciousness that everything on the planet depends on. When a listener asks about moon water, Tracie admits she can only speculate, guessing it means water charged by lunar energy the way it is also charged by solar rays, and Julia agrees the water likely takes on the frequency of whichever body charges it. The mood turns comic when Tiffany relays a garbled written question that seems to ask how to explain to clients that one's coworkers are extraterrestrials. After confused back-and-forth, a woman in the audience clarifies she meant to ask how she, as a QHHT practitioner who channels information from what she calls sky people, should discuss that with her own clients. Julia advises letting it come up naturally rather than announcing it upfront.

Protecting Energy and Male Practitioners

Turning to a question about protecting and cleansing personal energy, Tracie Mahan describes empaths as reaching out like an octopus with tentacles constantly absorbing everyone else's feelings, and recommends visualizing those tentacles pulled in close, especially in crowded places, along with the retreat's shared image of a pyramid of white light and simple grounding practices like earthing or an imagined shower washing energy away. Julia Cannon adds that feeling a need for protection often reflects an underlying belief in vulnerability, and encourages listeners to set boundaries from a place of safety rather than fear. Asked why more women than men seem to become QHHT practitioners, Tracie notes that men are joining in growing numbers and links the shift to a broader movement toward what she calls divine feminine balance, in which men are learning to feel and express emotion after years of being told not to. She shares that she has pursued this path since her teenage years and now, at fifty-five, sees the wider culture opening in ways it never did before.

QHHT Trauma Work and Tracing Past Lives

Asked whether QHHT sessions suit clients dealing with stress-related trauma who are unwilling to revisit painful memories, Julia Cannon says yes, explaining that a session is not built around forcing someone to relive every detail; the client's higher self decides what is most appropriate to show and how to handle even the most difficult material, so nothing is forced. A later question asks whether practitioners have ever traced a past-life identity into present-day records. Tracie Mahan recalls her mother's regression as a wealthy banker named Richard, whose existence in New York, including his work at a banking firm, was later confirmed. Julia describes finding a past-life workplace and building she once described in detail, though she has not yet located the person by name, and mentions the book "Five Lives Remembered," documenting her father's earlier research before practitioners learned that asking for names can raise a client's consciousness. Tracie adds that some past lives may belong to other timelines entirely, which she connects, half-joking, to the Mandela effect and to a guest's question about why keys keep going missing.

Signs From Loved Ones and Open Contact

A woman describes lingering guilt after a friend's suicide decades earlier, and Tracie Mahan tells her that souls choose their own exit points and encourages asking for a personal sign, recalling how she once asked a loved one for chocolate chip cookies and kept receiving them for weeks. Julia Cannon follows with the story of a mother whose daughter was murdered; the mother heard nothing until she worked through her grief and anger, after which her daughter began sending a red feather, their agreed sign. Tracie adds her own lighter version, finding dimes everywhere while packing to move. Turning to whether contact with extraterrestrials will become public, Tracie says it is already happening through telepathy, orbs caught on video at the retreat, and images in nature, while Julia stresses that fear, not distance, is what keeps direct contact from going further. Tracie describes discovering she channels an Arcturian she calls Daniel, and the hour closes with Julia's guiding phrase that things happen for people, not to them, before Tracie shares her website, traciemahan.com, and her QHHT practice near Portland, Oregon.

Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean

Alert

Resign Without Consequence: Corruption, Voter Fraud, and an Alert at America's Front Door

Broadcasting alone, Bradlee Dean argues that resigning politicians should face prosecution instead of a free pass, replays a Michigan sheriff's investigation into voter-registration fraud, and warns of what he calls a coming cultural and religious takeover of America, taking a call from Ken in West Virginia.

Resignation Without Prosecution Opens The Hour

The broadcast opens with a pre-recorded segment in which Bradlee Dean argues that lawmakers accused of crimes are allowed to simply resign rather than face prosecution. He runs through Senator Al Franken's exit amid harassment allegations, Congressman John Conyers stepping down after 52 years representing Detroit, and Arizona's Trent Franks quitting ahead of an ethics investigation, then reaches back to Senator John Ensign in 2011, Senator Robert Packwood in 1995, and Senator Harrison Williams in 1982. Dean argues each resignation only encourages the next violation, comparing it to asking a bank robber to return the money and find another job rather than calling police, and cites Article 2, Section 4 of the Constitution on impeachment for treason, bribery, and high crimes. The segment closes with a recording of Declaration of Independence signer Elbridge Gerry's Thanksgiving prayer and the network's statement describing Sons of Liberty as a Christian, biblical-worldview broadcast, before the show's theme brings on the live hour.

Ayn Rand, Joe McCarthy, And Self-Government

Live on the air, Bradlee Dean greets "friends as well as a few enemies," gives out the call-in number and sonsoflibertymedia.com, and announces an appearance the next day at the Princeton Civic Center in Princeton, Minnesota. He invokes novelist Ayn Rand's 1957 warning that a society is doomed once men grow richer through graft than through work and laws protect the corrupt rather than the honest, and compares her to Senator Joseph McCarthy, arguing history has vindicated his warnings about communist infiltration that the press once dismissed. Dean ties both to Deuteronomy 6 and 8's warning not to forget God in prosperity, and to Exodus 18, arguing Americans were meant to govern themselves under God rather than surrender that duty to authoritarian rulers. He returns to the theme running through the hour, that the purpose of government under 1 John 3:4 is to restrain sin, maintain order, and condemn the wicked rather than the righteous.

Founders On Speech, Then Judge Roy Moore

After a testimonial from longtime supporter Tom Raymond of Tennessee, Dean reads extended passages from Benjamin Franklin and George Washington on freedom of speech as the bulwark of liberty, and from Franklin's Constitutional Convention appeal that God governs the affairs of men. He pivots to Michigan, celebrating two men acquitted in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping-plot case as proof that falsely accused people should fight back rather than resign. Dean recalls the case of Judge Roy Moore, alleging Senate leader Mitch McConnell privately told him he orchestrated adultery accusations against Moore through the mainstream media, and says Moore ultimately won an $8.2 million judgment, which Dean holds up as an example of trusting Deuteronomy 19:19's promise that vengeance belongs to God while still pursuing accountability in court. He frames both stories as evidence that standing firm against false accusation, rather than quietly resigning, is the godly response to political persecution.

Sheriff Dar Leaf's Voter Fraud Investigation

Dean plays a recorded update from Barry County, Michigan Sheriff Dar Leaf, who says two Secretary of State supervisors gave him scripted refusals to discuss a whistleblower report that non-citizens are automatically registered to vote when they change their address, and that he has evidence senior officials ordered employees not to cooperate, which he calls obstruction of justice and witness intimidation. Dean interjects that Michigan's attorney general is a lesbian whom he accuses of working to overturn the state's laws against homosexuality, and argues the same corruption explains why undocumented immigrants keep arriving in the state. Caller Ken from West Virginia phones in next, saying he feels he is "walking amongst aliens" and asking what it will take for Americans to recognize that officials poisoning food, air, and water and then selling a cure are trying to kill them; Dean promises to answer fully once the show returns from a hard break.

Jeremiah, Minnesota's Muslims, And Stadium Idolatry

Back from break, a testimonial from Lisa Mead of Surgoinsville, Tennessee praises Dean's Sunday church service, and Dean quotes Harry Truman crediting the nation's laws to Moses, Exodus, and St. Paul. Returning to Ken's question, Dean turns to Jeremiah chapter 2, reading the prophet's account of Israel replying "we have no hope" rather than amending their ways, and applies it to Minnesota, repeating a claim that the state's roughly 180,000 Muslims have effectively taken it over while its 5.9 million other residents do nothing, filling football stadiums instead of protesting corrupt officials. He contrasts sparse turnout at protests with a stadium he says drew 72,000 fans paying up to $475 a ticket, and recalls people taking the COVID-era vaccine solely to reenter stadiums, which he calls modern idolatry. Dean warns listeners chasing "other gods," in his words sports and entertainment, are repeating the same stubborn refusal Jeremiah describes, and says the nation should expect judgment as a result.

CAIR, Islam Claims, And A Closing Alert

In the closing segment, Dean names CAIR a terrorist organization with no constitutional standing, repeats a claim that 225 Muslims have been elected to office nationwide, and says conservatives are only now catching on to warnings he made "10 and 15 and 20 and 25 years" ago. He plays a clip of Islamic scholar Uthman Farooq declaring that Islam "will enter every house" in America regardless of what he calls Islamophobes, and argues Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whom he labels a Zionist, is using Muslim migration to sweep away political opposition. Dean references reported comments from Elon Musk's girlfriend and Donald Trump about coming civil unrest, then plays a clip of a Muslim police officer in Minnesota reciting an Arabic devotional, questioning whether she can enforce laws consistent with the Constitution. He closes declaring "alert, alert, alert, it's at your front door," reminds listeners of Saturday's Princeton, Minnesota appearance, and signs off, "love you by what we do."

The Care Compass

Inside Memory Care and Adult Day Programs with Yvonne Napolitano, Sarah Verell, and Laura Drybelbis

Nicole Brandon welcomes three Prescott, Arizona caregiving leaders — Yvonne Napolitano of Adult Care Services, Memory Care Director Sarah Verell, and longtime Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center nurse and director Laura Drybelbis — to explain how memory care communities and adult day programs help families keep aging loved ones safe, social, and together longer.

A Good Week and a Personal Update

Nicole Brandon opens The Care Compass with happy news: her parents have been reunited after being apart, and her father tells her every day is "perfect" because he is with her mother again. She frames this reunion as part of the larger caregiving journey she has been sharing with listeners since starting the show, and reminds them that hurdles do not have to stay hurdles; she describes turning every wall into a gate that can be opened, even on rusted hinges, so families always have a direction to move. Nicole then introduces the guests she has been wanting to bring together for months: Yvonne Napolitano, Executive Director of Adult Care Services; Sarah Verell, Memory Care Director at the Margaret T. Morris Center; and Laura Drybelbis, a longtime staff member at the Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center. She tells listeners the hour will cover memory care and adult day programs, and the people and resources behind them.

Yvonne Napolitano and the Umbrella of Adult Care Services

Yvonne Napolitano describes herself as the Executive Director overseeing Adult Care Services, the nonprofit umbrella above both the Margaret T. Morris Center and the Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center. She tells Nicole that most families call her organization too late, after they are already deep in a caregiving crisis rather than before one begins, because nobody trains people to become caregivers ahead of time. Yvonne stresses that caregiving is a twenty-four hour, seven day a week responsibility, not something that pauses after a short visit, and that her team tries to support families locally in Prescott and further away by connecting them to trusted people wherever they live. Nicole reflects on her own experience of being blindsided by a phone call and then searching for basic equipment, from oxygen machines to extra tall walkers for her six foot two father, and Yvonne agrees that families rarely know what they will need until they need it.

Inside the Margaret T. Morris Center's Open Design

Sarah Verell, Memory Care Director of the Margaret T. Morris Center, explains that her community exists solely to serve people with Alzheimer's and dementia rather than offering memory care as one option among several. Yvonne adds that the center is the only assisted living community in northern Arizona built entirely on what is known as the Arizona Model, one of only two such programs still operating from an original group of sixteen. Instead of a locked hallway of apartments, residents live in one of four open neighborhoods designed to resemble a home, each with its own living room, dining room, and dedicated caregivers stationed at the heart of the space. Sarah notes that even the building's colors were chosen deliberately to support people living with dementia. Nicole responds that this is exactly where she would want her own parents to live, calling the model a gift for families searching for safety without losing warmth or independence.

The Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center's Medical Model

The conversation turns to the Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center in Prescott Valley, described as a sister program to the Margaret T. Morris Center that welcomes people with dementia, Parkinson's, autism, and other disabilities. Sarah explains that participants socialize, exercise, dance, and use an outdoor space designed for people with cognitive or physical limitations, and that families often reach out once caregiver burnout or a frightening change, like a wrong turn on a familiar street, becomes impossible to ignore. Yvonne details the licensing behind the center, noting it operates under Arizona's medical-social model of adult day health, which requires participants to be eighteen or older with a documented medical condition and mandates nurses on site at all times. She credits Laura Drybelbis, who joined nineteen years ago as the program's nurse and later became its director, along with a second full-time nurse, for making that level of medical support possible every single day the center is open.

Names, Founders, and a Family's Extra Year

Nicole asks about the names behind the programs, and Yvonne shares that Susan J. Rheem, the organization's late founding executive director, opened the day center in 1982 after seeing families place loved ones in nursing homes earlier than necessary simply because no other support existed. The Margaret T. Morris Center takes its name from a local rancher whose foundation funded the assisted living community that Susan was later invited to build for the state of Arizona. Laura Drybelbis adds a story of her own: a participant who spent nearly a year at the day center before moving to the Margaret T. Morris Center, whose wife later told her, "You gave me the opportunity to spend one more year with my husband." Laura explains that the center lets families delay assisted living, offers real respite for exhausted caregivers, and even hosts a family barbecue the following Friday so relatives can tour, eat lunch, and hear the music their loved ones enjoy.

Make the First Call, Lead With Heart

As the hour winds down, Yvonne and Sarah urge listeners not to let fear stop them from making one phone call, whether to a medical provider or directly to Adult Care Services, since no doctor's referral is required and any concerned neighbor or friend can start the process. Yvonne says the hardest part for caregivers, especially long-married spouses, is admitting they need help at all. Asked what it takes to work in the field, Yvonne, Sarah, and Laura each answer the same way: heart comes first, because skills can be taught but love and person-centered care cannot. Laura says the building is "full of love," and Sarah describes staff who feel an immediate bond with residents. Nicole closes by thanking her three guests, sharing the main number, 928-771-2335, and reminding listeners that they are not alone, encouraging them to seek out Adult Care Services, the Margaret T. Morris Center, and the Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center for themselves or a loved one.