Manifestation, the Law of Assumption, and the Mirror Technique with Robert Meade

Rachel Corpus sits down with Law of Assumption and self-concept coach Robert Meade to unpack what manifestation actually looks like in practice, from notebook scripting to his mirror technique and the belief that "everything visible comes from the invisible."

Introducing Manifestation and Robert Meade

Rachel Corpus opens the show by inviting listeners to check in with their own energy, saying that awareness of how one feels will matter for the conversation ahead. She turns to the topic of manifestation, noting how often people hear the word used as a "spiritual buzzword" without understanding how to actually practice it. Corpus introduces her guest, Robert Meade, a Law of Assumption and self-concept coach at TrueCosmic who helps people use imagination, inner dialogue, and identity-based practice to create lasting change. She credits Meade's own teachers, including Bob Proctor and Neville Goddard, for shaping his approach through years of trial and error. Meade greets Corpus warmly, and she tells him she wants to "sit in his presence" for a moment before the conversation begins, framing the hour as an exploration of how manifestation actually works rather than a repetition of the buzzword.

From Napoleon Hill to a Coaching Career

Meade traces his path back to his teenage and early adult years, when he became an avid reader and discovered Napoleon Hill, who studied how successful people applied universal and biblical laws to their own lives. That early fascination led him to other writers, including Brian Tracy and the authors behind "The Power of Positive Thinking," as he tried to apply what he read to his own circumstances. He describes working for decades in restaurants, from busboy to manager, before deliberately changing careers several times, becoming a professional massage therapist, a ski instructor, and a master scuba diver. Each shift, he says, began as a decision and an idea before it became a reality. Over time he began sharing what he had learned with others, gradually becoming a teacher and coach, which brought him to his current work helping clients apply the same principles he spent his adult life refining.

Journaling, Scripting, and Rewiring Old Programming

Meade lays out his central practice: keeping a dedicated notebook to write down, in detail, what a person's ideal life, career, and relationships would look like. He cites Earl Nightingale's definition of success as "a progressive realization of an ideal," arguing that clarity and specificity matter more than people assume. Corpus presses him on what happens when family members discourage big dreams, and Meade admits his own mother once talked him out of pursuing art as impractical. He explains that most personality and self-image is imprinted by around age seven, shaped by family, culture, and environment, and that adults who want to change must consciously identify and rewrite those inherited beliefs through repetition. Corpus asks whether journaling functions as a way of overriding the subconscious, and Meade agrees, describing how he once wrote the same affirmations about patience and calm over and over until they became true of him.

God Within and the Power of Imagination

Meade connects his practical methods to a spiritual foundation, explaining that his transition came through Neville Goddard and the belief that "God is within us." He tells Corpus that everything visible comes from the invisible, using the idea of an airplane existing first in the Wright brothers' imagination as an example. Corpus, a former opera singer, compares the idea to music, saying there is no truly new melody, only existing ideas recombined. Meade argues this reframes manifestation as a collaborative act of selection rather than a passive waiting on fate, saying "we don't get what we want, we get who we are." When Corpus asks whether God simply mirrors human energy or acts more like a person, Meade answers that he believes God has a personality visible throughout nature, and that God's will is for people to take responsibility for the choices they make about who to become.

The Mirror Technique and a Client's Success

Corpus asks Meade to explain his mirror technique, and he describes looking directly into one's own eyes, rather than just the face, while repeating affirmations first in general terms like "I'm enough" and later applying them to specific goals around money, career, or love. He recommends saying the words aloud, alone at home, until the habit carries into everyday moments, like pausing at a mirror while shopping. Meade shares the story of a financial-industry client, Jasmeet Kaur, who used the technique to attract higher-earning clients after struggling to land wealthy accounts, eventually building a large team and earning what he estimates at ten to fifteen thousand dollars a month. He notes she later used the same method to find a husband willing to accept her son from a previous relationship, and that an interview with her is posted on his YouTube channel, The Power of Imagination.

Living From the End and Finding Robert Meade

Meade describes Neville Goddard's concept of "living in the end," treating a desired outcome as already achieved rather than something still being chased, and compares it to noticing red Corvettes everywhere once he decided he wanted one. He recounts imagining, during the early days of the pandemic, a beach life with a specific partner, then moving through Mexico, Bali, and the Philippines before meeting a woman with all fifteen qualities he had written down. Corpus adds that the angels frame manifestation as claiming a gift already given out of love, rather than greedily asking for too much. As the conversation closes, Meade directs listeners to his coaching site, robertmead.truecosmic.com, its free thirty-minute consultation, and the Facebook group Neville Goddard Mystic Teachings, which he says has grown from three thousand to more than ninety-three thousand members in five years. Corpus thanks him and signs off telling listeners to keep their "halo straight."

Prophecy in the Spotlight with Dan Goodwin

What Is In Genesis 6: The Sons Of God And The Truth About The Nephilim

Dan Goodwin and Dr. Charles Hiltibidal spend the broadcast on Genesis 6, arguing from Matthew, Luke, Jude, and Ephesians that the "sons of God" are not fallen angels, and that the popular Nephilim theory is a modern distraction from the chapter's real message about man's wickedness, Noah's righteousness, and God's plan of redemption.

Reading Genesis 6 And The Nephilim Distraction

Dan Goodwin opens the broadcast alone, reading the opening verses of Genesis 6 and pointing out that the text says "men," plural, multiplying on the earth, not fallen angels or Nephilim. He tells viewers the passage contains nothing about angelic offspring or UFOs, calling that reading "nonsense" that is "not even possible." Goodwin introduces his book, The Great End Time Distraction, describing its three parts: what he calls the Nephilim crowd's teachings quoted from their own writings, a method for studying the question honestly, and what he believes the Bible actually says. He reads a passage from the book warning that confusion over the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 has spread through prophecy ministries for decades, with some teachers claiming that offspring of angels and human women cannot be saved. He previews the day's topic, "What Is In Genesis 6," promising slides from Dr. Charles Hiltibidal once the show returns from its opening break.

A Ministry Kept On The Air By Viewers

Back from the break, Goodwin thanks viewers for keeping the program on television and YouTube for more than six years, noting that neither he nor Dr. Charles Hiltibidal draws a salary from the ministry and that donations pay for staying on multiple networks. He walks through the ways to give, an 800 number, a website, a phone line staffed by "the ladies," and the option to talk with him or Hiltibidal directly before donating. The two men grow personal, with Hiltibidal describing the two-hour drive he makes each way to reach the studio, the technology his wife maintains, and the building and taxes he is still paying on, while Goodwin says he would quit if he did not believe the work was making a difference. Hiltibidal adds that a woman texts him weekly asking whether something she has heard "sounds right," proof, he says, that people genuinely want the truth. Goodwin lightens the mood by asking, half-joking, whether the angels supposedly flying UFOs use a steering wheel or a joystick.

Debunking The Fallen Angel Theory

Hiltibidal explains that the day's slides come from his weekly podcast, Walk Through Time with Doc, where he devoted an earlier session to what is not in Genesis 6 before turning to what is. He recaps that the chapter never mentions angels leaving their "first estate," developing physical bodies, or fathering children, and traces the popular fallen-angel reading to the book of Enoch, which he says arose during the four hundred silent years when God gave no open revelation. He and Goodwin walk through Matthew's and Luke's statement that the days before Christ's return will mirror the days of Noah, people eating, marrying, and building homes with no concern for God, and Luke's parallel reference to the days of Lot. Hiltibidal challenges the claim that Jude's "strange flesh" describes fallen angels, asking how a spirit being could create a body it was never given, and Goodwin cites Ephesians 6 that "we wrestle not against flesh and blood" since angels have neither. Hiltibidal notes that the Hebrew word rendered "giants" in Genesis 6 is nephel, not Nephilim, calling the substitution dishonest.

Laws Of Interpretation And The Sons Of God

Hiltibidal lays out what he calls the laws of Bible interpretation: keeping a verse in its context, the law of consistency, since he says God does not use a term differently in different places, and the law of first mention, how God's earliest use of a word or phrase governs its meaning throughout scripture. Goodwin compares the last principle to a courtroom lawyer citing an 1892 precedent to argue how a case should be decided today. Hiltibidal pushes back on the common claim that "sons of God" means angels in the Old Testament but believers in the New, insisting God would not use a phrase that inconsistently. Goodwin says his own book devotes a chapter to the exact phrase, counting eleven uses of "sons of God" in the Bible, ten referring to believers and one, in Job 38, functioning as a metaphor within a chapter he calls entirely figurative. Hiltibidal returns to Genesis 6:5, reading that every imagination of man's heart was "evil only continually," and calls it an exact description of today's world.

From Eden's Accountability To Noah's Generations

Goodwin turns to Genesis 3, recalling how God calls out to Adam after the fall, not because he does not know where Adam is, but to give him a chance to confess, and how Adam, Eve, and the serpent are each in turn held accountable for the sin. He contrasts that with Genesis 6, where no fallen angel is ever named or blamed, evidence, he argues, that none were involved. Hiltibidal turns to verse 9, "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations," and ties it to chapters 4 and 5, which he says run together over roughly sixteen hundred years, chapter 4 tracing Cain's ungodly line and chapter 5 the line of Seth, from whom Noah descends. He argues the verse points less to Noah's ancestry than to his spiritual standing, since only God can declare a person just, and that no one is made righteous by covering, like Adam's fig-leaf apron, but only through faith in the shedding of innocent blood for a guilty sinner.

The Ark, Redemption, And A Final Appeal

Hiltibidal corrects a popular idea that Noah's ark pictures the Rapture, arguing that a true rapture picture would end in heaven, not back on the earth; instead he calls the ark a picture of Israel, preserved through judgment into the Millennial Reign. He traces the flood's purpose to the redemption promised in Genesis 3, carried through the covenants with Noah, Abraham, and David to Christ, quoting Galatians 4:4 that "in the fulness of time God sent forth his Son," and notes that Noah's grandfather Methuselah, also a preacher of righteousness, died the very year of the flood. Goodwin asks Hiltibidal about his podcast, Walk Through Time with Doc, produced with his grandson Jacob and currently working through Genesis 10 and 11, before turning the discussion toward salvation, asking listeners whether they have been "redeemed" and know for certain they are heaven bound. He closes the broadcast, thanking viewers for their support and sending them off with the program's familiar sign-off, telling them to keep their eyes on the skies.

Chuck and Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden

AI Panic Porn: From Climate Hoax and Covid Hoax to the New AI Scare, Data Centers, and Algorithm Control

Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden argue that the new wave of artificial intelligence doom warnings follows the same script as the climate change and COVID-19 panics that came before it, walking through data centers, government regulation, and the fight over who controls the algorithms shaping what people see.

Opening the AI Panic Debate

Julie Hayden opens the show by drawing a direct line from the climate change movement to COVID-19 restrictions and now to what she calls "AI panic porn." She recalls warnings that failing to cede control to government would bring death within ten years from climate change, then within weeks from COVID, and now within three years from artificial intelligence. She points to a young former Anthropic employee who left the company after a matter of weeks, built a large social media following overnight, and now warns publicly that AI could kill everyone without swift regulation. Julie cites a Hill headline about Hakeem Jeffries addressing mounting AI safety concerns and notes that five months earlier the public was using AI cheerfully for songs, memes, and recipes. She argues the sudden shift feels engineered, framing it as a psyop meant to hand control of artificial intelligence to Democrats and big technology companies. Chuck Bonniwell listens as she lays out the pattern before he responds.

Chuck Sees a Real AI Danger

Chuck Bonniwell tells Julie he agrees with her in part and disagrees in part. He calls climate change a true hoax, arguing the underlying science tying carbon to warming is weak, and calls COVID-19 little more than a severe seasonal flu that government overreaction turned into a catastrophe. Artificial intelligence, he says, is different: he genuinely believes AI could cause serious harm, so that part is not a hoax. The hoax, in his view, is the idea that handing control to government will make people safer, when in his estimation government involvement would only make the danger arrive faster. He mocks a proposal from an unnamed Anthropic executive calling for a global consortium of democratically elected nations to govern AI, comparing it to the European Union and asking whether anyone truly trusts an international body to manage something so powerful. Julie agrees, adding that such a board would likely include figures like Barack and Michelle Obama directing everyone else on what to do.

Data Centers, Electric Bills, and Local Fights

The conversation turns to data centers, the physical infrastructure behind artificial intelligence. Chuck notes that newer generations of data centers use far less water than critics claim, though they can raise local electric bills, and he argues that companies like Xcel could be pressured to pass savings to ratepayers rather than absorbing tax breaks themselves. He recalls Loudoun County, Virginia, where local governments handed AI companies tax rebates just to attract them, calling it a missed opportunity for smarter negotiating. Julie points out that blocking data centers locally does nothing to stop the technology overall, since the centers will simply move to Wyoming, another state, or even China. She mentions Elon Musk's idea of putting data centers in space as one alternative. Both agree that refusing a data center only costs a jurisdiction tax revenue while giving competitors, especially China, the edge, since as Chuck puts it, whoever wins the AI race answers to no one else.

Government's Track Record on COVID and Fauci

Chuck broadens the argument by recalling how government antitrust action once broke up Standard Oil, calling it one of the rare cases where regulation worked because it kept a market competitive rather than consolidating it under one company. He contrasts that history with COVID-19, arguing that government promises to prevent dangerous research did not stop Anthony Fauci from supporting so-called gain-of-function work connected to the Wuhan lab. Both hosts revisit Fauci's private diaries, which they say show he knew his own six-foot distancing rule was arbitrary and that mask guidance shifted for political rather than scientific reasons. Julie extends the point to the Russia investigation and January 6th, arguing that government officials have repeatedly lied and then worked to silence dissent rather than admit error. She raises a theory from Conservative Treehouse suggesting a staged AI-related crisis, such as a power outage or financial glitch, may be timed before the midterms, followed by blame placed on Donald Trump for failing to stop it, echoing the pattern they say followed COVID and January 6th.

Who Controls the Algorithm Next

The discussion shifts to who will shape public opinion next. Julie argues that newspapers once controlled the narrative, then radio and television took over for decades, then social media and podcasts spread influence further, and now whoever controls search and chatbot algorithms will decide what people see and believe. She criticizes X's "For You" recommendations as inconsistent with what she actually follows and recalls being shadow-banned during COVID without knowing it. Chuck describes taking a Colorado Free University class on artificial intelligence taught by Donald Sullinger, saying it left him more unsettled about how capable the technology already is rather than less. Both trade stories about using ChatGPT to solve a flat tire in minutes, first for Chuck's car and then for Julie's, before Julie raises a darker hypothetical: if government controlled AI-linked services, a request for roadside help could quietly be denied to someone the government disfavored, using her own flat tire and the show's anti-AI segment as the example.

Frontier Companies, China, and Closing Thoughts

Chuck argues that AI "frontier" companies want government regulation mainly for legal cover, comparing it to pharmaceutical companies that welcomed vaccine mandates so they could not be sued if something went wrong. He repeats a claim that Nancy Pelosi and others helped push gain-of-function research toward Wuhan in 2020 to slow Donald Trump's economy, and argues the same interests now fund anti-AI messaging because China wants to overtake the United States. Julie counters that Democrats also want control for its own sake, noting that unions actually favor AI construction jobs while some Democrats resist them, and Chuck jokes that Trump could simply order a data center built at federally controlled Denver International Airport. The two also touch on artificial general intelligence, superintelligence, and old science-fiction warnings, invoking Star Trek's V'Ger and the Terminator's Skynet, noting that in both stories humanity eventually prevails. They close by reading a few listener comments from Zoom, thanking the audience, and signing off until Wednesday's show.

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Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean

When The Country Becomes Corrupt, How Do The People Respond? They Fill The Seats

Broadcasting alone, Bradlee Dean argues Americans have traded devotion to God and liberty for sports and entertainment, then spends the back half of the show revisiting September 11th conspiracy claims about the Pentagon, Larry Silverstein, and Building 7, taking calls along the way from supporter Tom Raymond and caller Monk.

Idols of the Stadium and a Founders' Prayer

Bradlee Dean opens Sons of Liberty alone, painting a picture of forty thousand protesters at a state capitol before turning to what he calls America's real devotion: sports. He plays a rapid montage of hockey, basketball, and football announcers screaming over game-winning plays, then argues listeners have been desensitized into cheering "grown men in tights fighting over a pig ball" while ignoring crimes against the constitutional republic. He contrasts the passion fans show for teams with silence toward abortion, homosexuality, and government corruption, blaming a church that has stopped preaching repentance. Citing George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, and John Wesley on preaching with fire, Dean argues Super Bowl parties reveal a nation entertaining itself out of its liberties. He closes the opening with Elbridge Gerry's Thanksgiving prayer, read in full, thanking Providence for the gospel while confessing what Gerry called America's "unparalleled ingratitude," before the Sons of Liberty statement of faith plays into the first break.

Troubling the Present, Telling the Truth

After the "boat rocker" theme, Dean returns with his usual greeting to "friends as well as a few enemies," crediting Salvation Army founder William Booth with the line that changing the future means troubling the present, and Martin Luther with the warning that preaching truth makes people either hate their sin or hate the preacher. He gives out the show's phone number and websites, sonsoflibertymedia.com and beforeitsnews.com, and reads a comment from a viewer called Lady Blue about America functioning as a corporation and citizens as human resources, pushing back that the people share the blame for tolerating it. Dean then retells a story he attributes to a 1980s defector who said a country cannot be freed until its people are first demoralized and separated from their faith. He frames the segment as a warning that Americans have accepted deception rather than truth, tying the theme to Psalm 9 and the book of Jude before promising to open the phone lines.

Unconstitutional Wars and a Pentagon Payout Denial

Dean pivots to what he calls 93 percent of American history spent at war, warning against what he frames as another unconstitutional conflict with Iran. He plays a news clip reporting that the Pentagon is refusing full survivor benefits to families of troops killed in the Iran conflict because Congress never formally declared war, and repeats Henry Kissinger's remark, which he attributes from memory, calling military men "dumb, stupid animals" used for foreign policy. Caller and supporter Tom Raymond, introduced as a retired Marine, trooper, and postal worker from Tennessee, phones in with a brief testimonial about Dean's work with teens and the Sunday church service. Dean returns to blast both the Pentagon and the parents who send their children to fight wars they know are unauthorized, then contrasts the unpaid benefits with a sold-out Minnesota stadium where fans paid up to $475 a seat, arguing Americans would rather cheer a football than confront their own government.

A Rigged Game and the Founders on Free Speech

Dean argues professional sports themselves are staged, replaying a 1980s clip of Pat Sajak interviewing author Dan Moldea, who describes NFL team owners with ties to organized crime and bookmaker Donald Dawson admitting to fixing more than thirty games by working with quarterbacks and referees. He follows with a podcast clip of former NFL running back Arian Foster telling a host that players received weekly scripts predicting injuries and touchdowns before the season began, comparing the league to professional wrestling, and mentions Shaquille O'Neal once suggesting NBA finals hotels were booked a year in advance. Dean says fans keep filling stadiums even knowing the games are fixed, calling it proof scripture is right that people "hold fast to deception." He then reads George Washington's warning about being "led like sheep to the slaughter" without free speech and Benjamin Franklin's description of free speech as "the great bulwark of liberty," tying both to his argument that censorship, not football, is the real threat facing the country.

Revisiting September 11th

In the second half, Dean plays footage he says newly surfaced from Pentagon-area gas stations, describing it as a Tomahawk missile rather than a plane striking the building, alongside archival CNN audio of correspondent Jamie McIntyre telling anchor Judy Woodruff he found no plane wreckage at the site. He reads a quote he attributes to Major General Albert Stubblebine describing a missile strike and smoke "squibs" consistent with controlled demolition, then lists films and shows, including The Simpsons and Armageddon, he says predicted the towers' fall years in advance. Dean recounts producer Aaron Russo's story of Nicholas Rockefeller previewing a coming "big event," then turns to developer Larry Silverstein, noting he bought terrorism insurance on the towers forty-nine days before the attacks and later collected a $4.55 billion payout. Two archival clips follow: Silverstein explaining he missed work that morning for a dermatologist appointment, and a We Are Change reporter pressing him on bomb testimony as he deflects. Dean closes citing 156 first-responder accounts of explosions and a BBC report describing Building 7's collapse twenty-six minutes early.

Caller Monk and a Closing Warning

Between ministry testimonials, including one from listener Lisa Mead about the Sunday church service, and a reading of Harry Truman's remark that America's laws trace back to Moses and the Gospels, Dean plays footage of New York mayoral figure Mamdani attending a 9/11 memorial, arguing Muslims are now being placed in positions of authority in the same city blamed for the attacks. He opens the phones to a caller named Monk, who says he was recording a National Public Radio broadcast of Henry Kissinger's extradition hearing over the death of Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, held in Tower Two, when the broadcast cut out as the planes hit. Monk adds that Israeli security personnel reportedly took over screening at Boston's Logan Airport and suggests Building 7 could have served as a control tower guiding the planes by remote. Dean thanks Monk, compares the account to the Oklahoma City bombing, then closes objecting to Muslim employees working TSA security checkpoints before signing off with his standard "love you by what we do."

Here's To Your Health with Joshua Lane with Joshua Lane

Cell Tower Battles, Tamiflu's Buried Data, and Iowa's Cancer Fight

Joshua Lane spends the hour alone at the microphone working through health stories in the news, from Jersey Shore towns fighting Verizon's 5G towers to a damning new Tamiflu trial, a disputed Pennsylvania measles death, and Iowa's worsening cancer rates.

Cell Tower Fights Along the Jersey Shore

Joshua Lane opens the show with a report on the growing fight against Verizon's 5G cell towers along the New Jersey coast, citing recent coverage on Fox Business News. He traces Verizon's federal lawsuit against Spring Lake, filed in November 2024 after the borough delayed approval, and notes that residents now worry the borough may settle without input from intervenors like Children's Health Defense. Lane details similar suits against Belmar, filed in 2021, and against Monmouth County after officials denied a 2023 application, plus a new state suit from Lavallette alleging Verizon skipped required environmental reviews. He reads a quote from Spring Lake resident Patrick L. Donnelly calling a proposed settlement, which would let Verizon place antennas inside boardwalk pavilion cupolas without further planning board review, a total capitulation. Lane adds that residents dispute Verizon's claim that new towers are needed at all, since their phones already work fine on the boardwalk.

A New Trial Raises Alarms on Tamiflu

After a break, Lane turns to a newly published randomized trial on Tamiflu, the antiviral Roche has marketed for more than two decades to critically ill influenza patients. Citing reporting by Maryanne Demasi for Children's Health Defense, Lane explains that among 442 patients assigned to five days, ten days, or no antiviral, about twenty percent given Tamiflu died within ninety days compared with fourteen percent who received none, leading the authors to call the drug ineffective and likely to increase mortality. Lane recounts how Roche withheld unpublished trial data for years until the Cochrane Collaboration and the British Medical Journal, led by editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee, forced disclosure of 123 trials, only 74 of them Roche-funded, and found the drug shortened symptoms by less than a day without reducing hospitalizations. He repeats Godlee's phrase describing the medical establishment's decades-long trust in Tamiflu as a false faith built on incomplete evidence.

Antivirals After Tamiflu Repeat a Pattern

Lane broadens the lesson to more recent antivirals, noting that remdesivir was hailed as a breakthrough for hospitalized COVID patients before the World Health Organization's larger Solidarity trial found little effect on mortality or hospital stay. He describes how Merck's molnupiravir was credited in 2021 with cutting hospitalization or death by fifty percent in an early analysis, prompting Australia to order 300,000 courses and the United States to buy 1.7 million, only for the larger Panoramic trial to later find no benefit among vaccinated high-risk adults. Pfizer's Paxlovid, Lane notes, showed stronger results in unvaccinated high-risk patients but has struggled to demonstrate the same benefit in vaccinated populations. He argues that the common thread running from Tamiflu through these newer drugs is governments spending billions on treatments before independent, randomized evidence existed, and he says that obligation to test drugs properly should not require another pandemic to relearn.

A Disputed Measles Death in Pennsylvania

Lane turns to the disputed death of a newborn in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the center of the nation's largest current measles outbreak, where the coroner attributes the death to a lacerated spleen. He lays out two competing accounts: Governor Josh Shapiro insists the baby would have survived had the mother been vaccinated, while state health secretary Debra Bogen says she reviewed the case thoroughly, but Lancaster County coroner Stephen Diamantoni tells an NBC affiliate that his office's forensic pathologist found measles was not a factor, since the infant's spleen was neither enlarged nor inflamed. Lane notes that the CDC has left Pennsylvania's measles deaths off its national tally, showing zero deaths for 2026, even though Pennsylvania's health department confirmed last week that two unvaccinated people died, the state's first measles deaths in thirty-five years. He describes the dispute, which pits Shapiro against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as one that has spilled into public argument online.

Iowa's Cancer Rates Become a Campaign Issue

Lane shifts to Iowa, which he says has the second-highest cancer incidence in the country and is one of three states where the rate has climbed for a third straight year, with youth cancer rates also near the top. He cites a report linking Iowa's common cancers to pesticide use and nitrate runoff from fertilizer contaminating drinking water, and highlights Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn, who has built his campaign around water quality and cancer rates, blaming what he calls big agriculture and big chemical for the state's health crisis. Lane insists the issue is not partisan, arguing that people in both parties either understand the environmental risks or dismiss them regardless of affiliation. He quotes Lahn telling a stump speech at the Iowa State Fair that advisers warned him a Republican could not win a primary criticizing the agricultural conglomerates that, in Lahn's words, are extorting farmers while poisoning the water supply.

Food Policy, Flame Retardants, and History's Lessons

In his closing segment, Lane credits Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services with reshaping federal food guidance to favor protein over grains and cereals and to remove certain food chemicals, even as he faults the Trump administration for backing new data centers and, according to reporting in the Guardian, allowing the EPA to use an unusual risk-assessment method to downplay the flame retardant TBBPA, found in household dust, as noncarcinogenic despite findings by European and international cancer agencies. Lane compares the episode to leaded gasoline and paint, which industry defended for decades even after science showed the lead was lowering children's IQ, noting it still took forty years to ban. He closes on an optimistic note, recalling that forty-five percent of American adults smoked cigarettes when he was young, compared with about nine percent today, as proof that public habits and policy can change once good information reaches enough people, before signing off and inviting listener suggestions by email.

The Power of Synergy with Gabrielle Cardona

Synchronize to Synergize: Proverbs, the ART of AIM, and the Stranded Island Personality Test

Gabrielle Cardona hosts solo this week, walking listeners through the proverbs, acronyms, and personality principles she uses to coach synergy in relationships. She closes with a candid look at her own thirty-two-year marriage and a personality exercise she calls the stranded island test.

From Life Coach to Relationship Coach

Gabrielle Cardona opens the hour by explaining how she became a relationship coach after twenty-two years working as a general life coach. She recalls being told she needed a specialty, but says her clients arrived with every kind of problem, from career expansion and weight loss to time management and dating advice, which convinced her that people themselves were the common thread running through every issue. She describes a seventy-five-year-old retired actuary from Kaiser Permanente who decided late in life that he was finally ready to be in love, a district attorney in his mid-thirties rethinking whether he had chosen the wrong career, and a twelve-year-old Cuban girl whose grandmother asked Cardona to fix her. Cardona says these encounters taught her that relationship coaching touches everything, since whatever a person thinks, feels, and does eventually affects the people around them. She frames the whole episode around raising the quality of one's soul in order to improve every relationship it touches.

Three Founding Principles and the SAFE Test

Cardona lays out three principles she returns to throughout her coaching: there is no neutral energy, since indifference itself functions as a negative; there is no inertia, because people are always moving toward, away from, or with one another; and power comes with a responsibility that demands accountability, a quality she says social media has largely erased. She illustrates accountability with a small habit of her own, calling the Valley Metro bus company in Phoenix to praise good drivers by name rather than staying silent. Cardona then introduces what she calls being SAFE, an acronym for strength, ability, flexibility, and endurance, which she argues are the qualifications a person needs before entering any relationship, casual, professional, or romantic. She insists relationships are a privilege rather than a right, and that a person who lacks strength, skill, adaptability, or staying power will struggle to build the foundation required to bring good people into their life.

Proverbs, Honesty, and the Math of Synergy

Cardona works through a string of favorite proverbs, applying each one to relationships rather than money. Waste not, want not becomes a warning against taking people for granted; what goes around comes around becomes a statement about emotional and mental energy rather than material reward. She repeats advice her father gave her as a girl, that lying to strangers costs opportunities, lying to friends and family leads to dying alone, and lying to oneself leaves nothing at all. From there she moves to being honest without being cruel, insisting any hard truth can be delivered with care. To show how much a small improvement in attitude can matter, she runs through a numbers exercise, rating four hypothetical people on a scale of one to ten and raising their combined total to increasing powers, showing the sum jumping from 324 to 361 and eventually into the tens of thousands once people commit to raising their own quality even slightly.

The ART of AIM and Synchronizing Differences

Cardona introduces what she calls the ART of AIM, an acronym in which ART stands for appreciation, respect, and trust, and AIM stands for abilities, intentions, and motives. She explains that appreciating someone's abilities, respecting their intentions, and trusting their motives makes it possible to surrender control without losing power, because differences that once divided two people can start uniting them instead. She calls this the gift of acceptance, drawing on her experience with her Phoenix congregation to describe how asking someone for help, rather than avoiding it, tells that person they matter and increases the quality of their life. Throughout this stretch of the show she keeps returning to her core phrase, synchronize to synergize, meaning that people who work together at the same time, in the same way, for the same reason, produce results that are not merely additive but exponentially greater, whether or not the people benefiting are even directly involved in what was created.

Marriage, Stretching, and Managing Difficult Feelings

Cardona turns personal, describing her thirty-two-year marriage as still feeling like a boyfriend-and-girlfriend relationship. She credits daily stretching, an hour a day, with keeping her flexible and relaxed, and connects that physical discipline directly to a healthy sex life, citing Proverbs 5:19 about a husband being satisfied by his wife. She pushes back on what she calls lies told to her by feminist women of her mother's generation who warned that husbands lose interest once married, insisting instead that her husband still loves loving her after decades together. She also credits small habits like listening to her favorite eighties music, including Phil Collins's Against All Odds, with keeping her mood positive, since a good mood is contagious. From there she reframes anxiety, fear, and anger as useful signals rather than problems, saying anxiety warns of what could go wrong, fear warns of a real threat, and anger tells a person something has already happened that needs fixing.

The Stranded Island Test and Closing Resources

Cardona closes the hour by walking listeners through what she calls the stranded island test, asking them to imagine a place where money does not exist and only a currency she calls happy juice can buy food, clothing, and shelter, then asking what activities would let a person earn enough of it. She connects the exercise to personality typing, describing dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions and suggesting roughly eight hours a day for a dominant activity down to one or two hours for an inferior one, warning that neglecting one's dominant function does more harm than overusing an inferior one. She reminds listeners that change should happen gradually, no more than ten percent at a time, and that new habits take about twenty-one days to form. She ends by pointing listeners to her website, life-synergy-coaching.com, and her books, including Till Death Do Us Part, the Life Coaching Workbook, and Embrace Your Nature and Maximize Your Functionality, signing off until next week.

Brother Jim Shaw Ministries

Not Ashamed of the Gospel: Truth, Sin, and Standing Firm in the Last Days

Brother Jim Shaw preaches from Romans on standing unashamed for the gospel, walking through a caller's account of a church pressured to accept homosexuality, and closing with Paul's charge to the Corinthian church to confront sin without excusing it.

Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Brother Jim Shaw opens the broadcast with a warning that time is growing short for spreading the word of God, describing a culture that wants to shut down Christianity and turn truth itself into a crime. He says the church is also becoming watered down, especially among newer generations, until truth is turned upside down. Turning to Romans chapter one, verse sixteen, he reads, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ... for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." Brother Jim tells listeners that Christians must set aside outside opinions, advice, and interpretations once they know the truth, citing Jesus's words that his sheep know his voice. He says a believer can recognize a lie, a demonic spirit, or a deceptive spirit almost instinctively once truth becomes familiar.

The True Jew of the Heart

Brother Jim moves from Romans one to Romans two, verse twenty-nine, noting that the same writer, Paul, describes what makes someone a true Jew. He reads, "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." Brother Jim explains that this identity is no longer geographic, and he anticipates listeners who might want to place him in a particular religious camp for saying so. He repeats the verse for emphasis, arguing that Christians, through the new covenant, inherit this inward status. He states plainly that Christians are true Jews under this covenant and says he will leave the point there rather than expand further, moving the sermon toward his main subject for the broadcast.

A Caller's Struggle With His Church

Brother Jim shares a phone call he received during the week from a man in his fifties, uncertain whether the church was Methodist or Lutheran, where leaders in robes announced that the congregation must accept homosexuality "in every capacity." The caller, worried about his two teenage daughters sitting in the pews hearing this teaching, asked Brother Jim how he could accept it. Brother Jim's answer is direct: "Get out of Dodge. Hit the road. Get out of there." He tells the caller that what he heard was not the voice of Jesus but a perversion of love, and that Jesus's sheep recognize his voice apart from institutional pronouncements. Brother Jim connects the caller's church to Romans 1:21, describing people who knew God yet did not glorify him as God, becoming vain in their imaginations with a foolish, darkened heart, losing their way and inventing their own definitions of good and evil.

Fighting Not Flesh and Blood

Turning to homosexuality directly, Brother Jim calls it a sin and says the real battle is spiritual rather than personal, since Christians "fight not flesh and blood." He tells anyone under what he calls a homosexual spirit's attack to look in the mirror and separate the human being, made in God's image, from the demon attacking that person. He extends the same framework to addiction, saying he has never liked AA meetings because they encourage people to stand and declare, "I am an alcoholic." Brother Jim insists a person is not an alcoholic but a creation of Jesus Christ held captive by addiction, a straitjacket of captivity, and argues that verbalizing identity with an addiction instead of naming the enemy, Satan, keeps people trapped. He adds that outside of Christianity people only fight addictions and sicknesses with other addictions and medications, calling it a merry-go-round without ever naming the source of evil.

Reading Romans on Vain Imaginations

Brother Jim returns to Romans chapter one and reads an extended passage describing people who, professing themselves wise, became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into images resembling corruptible man, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things. He reads that God gave such people up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, dishonoring their bodies and worshipping the creature more than the Creator. He continues into the passage describing vile affections, where women exchanged natural use for what is against nature and men, leaving the natural use of women, burned in lust toward one another. Brother Jim frames this reading as evidence that the country and even parts of the church have tilted away from truth, warning listeners that believers who think this shift has not happened have either buried their heads in the sand or gone along with it themselves.

A Call to Stand Firm

Brother Jim closes by invoking 1 Corinthians chapter five, describing a reported case in a congregation of reborn Christians where a man was said to be sexually involved with his mother, and the church had come to accept it. He recounts Paul's instruction to give the man over to Satan so his flesh might be destroyed and his soul saved, and Paul's rebuke that the congregation had become "puffed up," accepting everything without a straight and narrow standard. Brother Jim distinguishes willful sin from sin exposed by revealed light that leads to repentance and godly sorrow, warning that willful sin can turn prideful. He urges Christian men not to be a "spiritual spaghetti spine" and calls for standing in the gap in prayer for those in bondage. He ends warning that Bibles are being changed and believers muzzled, saying the message may end in "the lion's den," and closes with "God bless you, and amen."

Tony Alamo

How to Have God's Life Living in You, Part 159: The Difficult Mountain Vision and a Call to Salvation

Tony Alamo devotes program 261, part 159 of his teaching series, to letters from Ghana, a recorded duet with Porter Wagoner, and a lengthy reading of his own vision of climbing a difficult mountain with his late wife Susie, closing the hour with a spoken salvation prayer.

Opening Prayer and Program Introduction

Tony Alamo opens the broadcast identifying it as program 261, part 159 of his ongoing series How to Have God's Life Living in You, and tells listeners that co-host Sharon will explain near the end how to request a free audiotape or CD copy. He previews a new piece of literature set to appear on the ministry's website and in major newspapers including the New York Daily News, describing distribution reaching Hispanic nations, Italy, Central and South America, Great Britain, and Israel. Alamo leads an opening prayer describing the present era as perilous because people focus on themselves rather than God, and names the conflict he says he was called into as the Battle of Armageddon, the war between God and Satan for the soul of man. He prays that Catholics and Lutherans be saved, asserting as historical fact that Martin Luther was anti-Semitic, and that the true church, not religion, will be strengthened. The prayer closes with an audible amen from Sharon.

A Duet with Porter Wagoner

After the opening prayer, Tony Alamo introduces a song called Lord, Hold My Hand, written for him by Dolly Parton and recorded years earlier with RCA Victor artist Porter Wagoner. The broadcast plays the full duet recording, after which Alamo returns to the microphone praising Wagoner as one of the finest country singers who ever lived and calling him a close personal friend. He recalls Wagoner and his band performing at a restaurant the ministry once operated and later opening a clothing store the ministry ran in Nashville, describing years of good times shared between them. With the song finished, Alamo turns to the mail, telling listeners letters have come in from Africa. He hands the first one to Sharon, asking where it originates, and she identifies it as coming from Accra, Ghana, setting up the readings that follow. Alamo tells listeners the program regularly receives correspondence from around the world thanking the ministry for its broadcasts and requesting literature.

Letters from Ghana

Sharon reads two letters from listeners in Ghana who describe hearing the ministry's broadcast on Radio Africa. The first, signed by Eli from Accra, thanks the ministry for what he calls a heaven-bound broadcast that is converting new believers and turning others back to Christ, and asks for Bibles and study materials for his church members. The second comes from a listener named Bismark in North Ghana, who writes that the program has transformed his inner life and is helping him grow more like Jesus despite obstacles, and who likewise requests Bibles, books, and study materials for his fellowship. Tony Alamo responds to both by telling the ministry that anyone doing a genuine work for the Lord will receive whatever literature the ministry has to give, free of charge. He frames the requests as evidence of the broadcast's reach across Africa, before turning to a new piece of his own literature that Sharon will read next, a testimonial he calls Difficult Mountain.

The Difficult Mountain Vision Begins

Tony Alamo introduces a written testimony called Difficult Mountain, explaining that difficulty is the lot of anyone doing the Lord's work in what he calls the worst of all times, and that the piece stems from a vision God gave him about 42 years earlier, not long after marrying his late wife Susie. Sharon begins reading it aloud: in the vision Alamo climbs a steep mountain with unusual strength while Susie struggles behind him, and the scene shifts from color to black and white as a hellish storm descends, just as it did in an earlier vision foretelling their marriage and shared ministry. The reading connects the vision to their actual wedding at Red Rock Baptist Church in Las Vegas, where a fierce storm struck before the ceremony despite calm weather on either side of it, and recalls singer Hank Snow standing as best man, a stranger at the time who later became a close friend in Nashville. The pastor who married them, the reading says, told them he had never felt the Spirit of the Lord so strongly before.

Prophecy, Plagues, and the Shield of Faith

The reading continues at length, describing the storm as Satan's ongoing attempt to destroy the ministry's end-time work and casting the shield of faith, defined repeatedly as prayer, as the only way to withstand it. Sharon reads extensive scripture citations tying the vision to the book of Revelation's woman clothed with the sun and the great red dragon, and to warnings throughout Matthew, Thessalonians, and Ephesians to pray without ceasing. The piece draws a direct parallel between the violence God saw in the days of Noah, which led him to destroy the earth by flood, and violence Alamo says is now millions of times worse, arguing the earth's coming judgment will come by fire rather than water. It lists tsunamis, earthquakes, and diseases including cancer, tuberculosis, AIDS, and Ebola as signs of the tribulation already underway, and quotes at length from Genesis, Daniel, Mark, and Second Peter to argue that no human effort, government, or technology can prevent God's plagues from reaching the whole earth.

False Prophets, the Salvation Prayer, and Closing

Tony Alamo returns to the microphone to warn against what he calls false prophets who teach that Christians can go on sinning after salvation, citing Paul's warnings to Timothy and describing church members who fell back into old lives of addiction and became, in his words, seven times worse than before. He insists believers must stop sinning entirely once saved, comparing ongoing sin to trampling the blood of Christ underfoot, and leads listeners in a spoken salvation prayer confessing belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God who died and rose again, asking him to wash away their sins. Alamo tells listeners who prayed along that they can know they are saved and closes with praise. He then hands the program to Sharon, who reads out the ministry's website, its Texarkana, Texas post office box, and phone and fax numbers for anyone requesting a free copy of program 261. Alamo closes the broadcast leading the room in a final hymn, Onward, Christian Soldiers.

Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams

Different Wounds, Same Healing: Childhood Abuse Survivors Speak Out with Dr. Peter Verdin and Sonny Von Cleveland

Dr. Peter Verdin - Gold in the Cracks — A Memoir of Silence, Performance, and Repair

Sonny Von Cleveland - Sonny Von Cleveland | Author, Speaker & Advocate | Palm Springs

Dr. Gregory Williams welcomes two survivors of childhood sexual abuse, former college baseball player Dr. Peter Verdin and motivational speaker Sonny Von Cleveland, whose very different roads through trauma, prison, and healing led them to become close friends and co-authors of companion memoirs.

Football, 9/11, and a Double Booking in Houston

Dr. Gregory Williams opens the broadcast live from Houston, ribbing his beloved Texans for blowing an early lead in their season opener and checking on the Dallas Cowboys, who are about to kick off a tough road game against the New York Giants. He turns serious to mark the anniversary of September 11th, thanking veterans, active-duty service members including his own son in the Army, and firefighters and emergency responders, and says the tragedy pulled the country together with a resiliency he believes can never be broken. Williams gives out the call-in number, 888-627-6008, and his personal cell phone for anyone who needs someone to talk to, and notes the show is also streaming live on Facebook. He tells listeners tonight brings a rare double booking, a dynamic duo he promises will be nationally known soon, and explains he is skipping his usual intro segment to bring on Dr. Peter Verdin and Sonny Von Cleveland right away.

Two Survivors Connect Through a Shared Network

Verdin explains he emailed the show after searching podcasts in the trauma-and-healing space and finding Williams' book, Shattered by the Darkness, dovetailing with his own manuscript, Gold in the Cracks, written while he sat on the floor in pieces. He credits Detective Jeremy Henson, who caught his childhood abuser and has stayed a friend for seventeen years since the trial, with connecting him to Jim Cole, a thirty-year federal investigator who co-hosts a podcast with Sonny Von Cleveland. Verdin and Von Cleveland talked by FaceTime for two hours the first time they spoke, before either knew the other's full story, and later met in person in Nashville, where Von Cleveland wrote the foreword to Gold in the Cracks. Williams reads a line from that foreword aloud, noting how one man wore his pain where the world could see it while the other learned to hide behind a resume, different armor over the same wound.

A Little League Coach's Years of Grooming

Dr. Peter Verdin describes being chosen at age nine for an all-star Little League team in Northern Virginia, where the coach, John Hamilton, began giving him private hitting lessons, took him to an Orioles game, and embedded himself in the family, even earning a seat at Christmas dinner. Hamilton abused him almost daily from age nine until his fourteenth birthday, and Verdin says he told no one until a phone call from his mother during his freshman year of college prompted him to name what happened; Hamilton was later sentenced to fifty-five years in prison. Verdin went on to start for three and a half years at the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Washington Nationals before burning out. He kept the abuse buried for years while building what looked, from the outside, like a successful life, until being fired from a job and an abrupt breakup left him, four months before this broadcast, at what he calls rock bottom.

Abuse, Prison, and Years in Solitary

Sonny Von Cleveland says his abuse began at age three inside his own family and eventually involved seven men over nine years; when he disclosed his uncle's abuse at age ten and testified at trial, the uncle received fifteen years in prison, but much of Von Cleveland's family did not believe him and blamed him instead. Already caught up in the juvenile system after a felony break-in at age seven, he describes his mother trafficking him to men for drugs and money, a cycle that sent him to prison at sixteen, where he was raped by two men at knifepoint in his first week and later stabbed one of his attackers with pencils. He would spend eighteen of the next twenty years incarcerated, including five years in solitary confinement, a period he calls an absolute blessing because it forced him to sit with his own demons. A motorcycle wreck years later, after which he says he had to lose everything to gain a new life, became another turning point in his healing.

Forgiveness, the Body, and the Real Numbers

The two men compare how they manage triggers today. Von Cleveland says he has forgiven every abuser he has ever had, calling forgiveness the ultimate trigger lock that frees him rather than the person who hurt him, alongside meditation and remembering survivors who cannot yet speak for themselves. Verdin takes a different view, describing complex post-traumatic stress disorder as a physical brain injury stored in the nervous system rather than something a person can simply decide to release, and tracing a chronic back injury directly back to the exact age his abuse ended. Both men lean on movement, EMDR therapy, and journaling. When Williams raises the widely cited statistic that one in six men experience childhood sexual abuse, both guests call the number far too low, arguing it only counts men who report, leaving out boys in rural communities, cultural groups where the subject stays taboo, and the more than thirty children Verdin's abuser was found to have victimized beyond the five who came forward.

Advice for Men Who Have Never Told Anyone

Asked what he would say to a man who has never disclosed his abuse, Verdin urges people to speak before they hit rock bottom, describing how writing his own story forced buried memories to the surface and noting that friends who finally learned his history told him it made him make so much more sense. Von Cleveland adds that no one can help a person whose struggle stays hidden, quoting Viktor Frankl's line that suffering ceases to be suffering once it is given a purpose. Williams closes by pointing listeners to both books: Von Cleveland's Hey, White Boy: Conversations of Redemption, already available in print, on Kindle and as an AI-narrated audiobook, and Verdin's Gold in the Cracks, due out the third week of October and previewable at his website. He invites both men back on the show, thanks them for giving up their evening, and ends the broadcast with the program's long-standing promise that no matter how dark it gets, there is always hope.