Tony Alamo

Ep 265 How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 163

A Communion Sermon and Newspaper Crusade with Susan Alamo

Tony Alamo devotes program 265, part 163 of his teaching series, to a tribute broadcast built around a lengthy pre-recorded Communion sermon by his late wife, Susie Alamo, framed by his own prayers, a report on the ministry's costly newspaper crusade, and listener testimonies.

Opening Prayer and a Tribute to Susie

Tony Alamo opens the broadcast introducing himself as World Pastor Tony Alamo, naming the program number 265, part 163 of his series How to Have God's Life Living in You. He tells listeners this week's broadcast centers on a message from his late wife, Susie, who passed away on April 8, 1982, saying she could say more in a few minutes than he could in a week. He notes strong listener testimonies have arrived along with music for the hour. Alamo leads an opening prayer asking the Lord to anoint the service inwardly and outwardly, to open the hearts and souls of everyone in radio land to the warnings of the end times, and to let anyone hearing the message for the first time enter the kingdom of heaven "just under the wire." He asks that the church be strengthened, closing in Jesus' name, and a woman in the studio answers with an audible amen.

A Recorded Hymn and the Two Witnesses

Following the prayer, Alamo introduces a recording of himself singing "I'll Walk with God," a song he first admired watching Mario Lanza perform it in the film "The Student Prince" before he was saved, arranged for the church's own musicians by Joe Leahy. Returning to speak, Alamo connects the song to Enoch, who walked with God and did not die, explaining his belief that Enoch and his wife are the two witnesses of the last days. He says the Lord has told him the end is close and instructed him to spread his personal testimony everywhere, comparing his own conversion to that of the Apostle Paul. He discloses the ministry typically spends $120,000 to $130,000 a week on gospel outreach but spent $224,000 this particular week, insisting the expense is justified because nothing matters more than winning souls before the plagues of the last days arrive.

Persecution, Waco, and Prison Injustice

Alamo tells listeners that character assassination and persecution are proof of true faith, citing Jesus' warning that anyone living godly in Christ will suffer for it. He denies rumors that the ministry kept tunnels, hypnotized members, or stockpiled guns, saying not even a toy cap gun is allowed on the property, and recalls a former FBI contact who told him agents once discussed raiding the ministry the way they raided Waco, calling it a "turkey shoot." He mentions a book just sent to him, which a congregation member identifies as "Journey Toward Justice," about a man who served eleven or twelve years in prison, and uses it to argue there is no justice in secular courts. Turning to doctrine, he cites the eleventh chapter of Revelation on measuring people by the word of God, arguing the church must exclude unrepentant sinners, including homosexuals, rather than accommodate them the way he says television preachers do.

A Global Radio Reach and an Oklahoma Testimony

Alamo describes the ministry's international radio reach on AM, FM and shortwave, saying listeners in Africa and India rely on shortwave to find American ministries and that the newspaper campaign is now drawing more mail from within the United States than from overseas. To illustrate the cost of the outreach, he says a single full-page ad in a Tokyo newspaper, which could reach thirty million readers with his testimony tract, runs about $240,000, and that the ministry hopes to place ads in USA Today after the holidays. He frames the spending as mercy that will be rewarded a hundredfold and says souls of every background, Buddhist, Japanese, Chinese, Latino, Norwegian, even self-described skinheads, deserve the same chance to hear the gospel. A congregation member then reads a testimonial from Bill and Katie Warwick of Edmond, Oklahoma, whose son William was saved immediately after reading the ministry's "Difficult Mountain" literature reprinted in an Oklahoma newspaper.

Susie Alamo's Communion Sermon

Alamo introduces the heart of the program, a pre-recorded sermon by his late wife, Susan "Susie" Alamo, delivered on a Communion Sunday. She warns against modernism and denominational church-joining without genuine rebirth, insisting there is no forgiveness without the shedding of Christ's blood and recounting the mockery and thirst of the crucifixion in vivid detail. She tells the congregation not to take communion elements unless they are certain they are born again, instructing ushers to serve the bread and cup while she calls anyone unsaved to step forward to the altar instead. Reading from the first chapter of Proverbs, she argues that only the original King James Bible should be trusted, urging listeners to burn any modern translation that softens the word "fear" into "reverence." She warns that souls who ignore God's calling in youth may find, at the moment of death, that repentance has come too late, closing with an altar call as Tony sings "There's Room at the Cross for You."

A Closing Prayer and How to Reach the Ministry

After Susie's message ends, Tony Alamo returns to lead listeners in a spoken salvation prayer, asking the Lord for mercy, confessing belief that Jesus is the Son of God who died, rose, and forgives sin, and assuring anyone who prays along that they can have peace and confidence their soul is saved. He tells listeners already saved but "lukewarm" to repeat the prayer and rededicate themselves, reminding them the broadcast is a message of Bible prophecy from the Lord. He then turns to his co-host, whom he addresses as Sharon, to close the program by giving the ways to request a free copy of program 265: alamoministries.com, a Texarkana, Texas post office box, and a phone and fax number for Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Alamo signs off the broadcast performing the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers," ending the hour as he began it, with music.

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.

Signs of Life with Bob Ginsberg

Research-Tested Mediumship and Live Caller Readings with Joanne Gerber

Mediums and Messages host Joe Perreta welcomes lab-tested, Forever Family Foundation certified medium Joanne Gerber for an evening of live call-in readings connecting four callers with mothers, a son, a father and brother, and a grandmother in spirit.

Announcements And Introducing Joanne Gerber

Joe Perreta opens this Mediums and Messages hour of Signs of Life for the Forever Family Foundation, reminding listeners to call in on a landline for the best reception and thanking sponsor Hugs from Heaven, which turns clothing into keepsakes. He previews two upcoming events: an October 24 and 25 psychic and mediumship development convention with an optional Friday dinner featuring Laura Lynne Jackson and Travis Holp, and a January 15 through 17 winter grief transformation retreat held at an intimate, bucolic center, which he notes was featured in the Netflix series Surviving Death. Perreta then introduces tonight's guest medium, Joanne Gerber, describing her as a Forever Family Foundation certified medium and a certified research medium with the Windbridge Institute, holder of a business administration and marketing degree, Reiki certified, certified in clinical and metaphysical hypnotherapy, lab certified through the University of Arizona's VERITAS Research Program, and an ordained spiritual minister.

Inside The World Of Tested Mediums

Perreta and Gerber compare notes on being research-tested mediums, a topic they realize they have never discussed on air. Gerber explains she was certified through the University of Arizona in 2007, before the Windbridge Institute existed, undergoing triple-blind readings given by phone with no feedback from anyone on the line, an experience she compares to doing radio into dead air. She recalls people around her reacting with alarm when she left her business to pursue mediumship, and now those same people ask her to read for friends. The two discuss why certification matters, since many self-styled mediums claim credentials without any real testing process, and they distinguish between an accurate reading and one that is both accurate and specific, using a joking example about hair color. Gerber calls herself a healthy skeptic who wanted proof her work was genuine connection rather than simple psychic guessing. She also plugs a demonstration this weekend with Reverend Kathleen Hoffman at the First Spiritualist Church of Onset, Massachusetts, tickets available through her website.

Sandy Connects With Her Mother

The phone lines open with Sandy from New York, who asks for a mini reading. Gerber connects with a maternal energy and describes a mother who was strong-minded and held on despite a difficult final illness, a homebody who preferred family closeness over travel and disliked flying. Sandy confirms her mother suffered end-stage Alzheimer's, developed pneumonia, and went septic, and that her father, still living when her mother passed, has since died as well and now stands beside her in spirit. Gerber's impressions about Sandy's mother running the household and playing matchmaker draw gentle pushback, though Sandy agrees her mother was deeply opinionated about her relationships. Gerber describes a woman who entrusted Sandy with family matters and who, from the other side, expresses regret for not always showing appreciation while alive. She mentions an unidentified J-name and a coming celebration, perhaps a wedding or engagement, that Sandy cannot yet place. The reading closes with Sandy's father adding, through Gerber, that her mother wants more conversation than he does.

Susan Hears From Her Son Michael

Susan from New York calls next, and Gerber first senses a mother's energy with a strong sense of humor before a younger male presence comes through more urgently. Susan confirms the connection is her son, whose sudden, accidental passing Gerber describes as unexpected rather than self-inflicted, a detail Susan validates. Gerber picks up specific details: Susan keeps his wallet, sits near his photograph, and feels his presence riding along in her car. She identifies the M initial as Michael and names his brother Matthew, prompting Susan's emotional confirmation. Gerber describes Michael as independent-minded, unafraid of peer pressure, fond of the outdoors, and connected to a dog, which Susan clarifies belonged to people he lived with for a time rather than to him directly. Gerber notes a fondness for T-shirts that Susan confirms she still keeps, and closes by naming a March 30 birthday, which Susan confirms exactly. Susan thanks Gerber, calling the reading very helpful as the segment ends.

Michelle's Father And Brother Come Through

Michelle from Massachusetts requests a reading, and Gerber describes an older father figure who kept health worries private to avoid burdening his family, a trait Michelle recognizes. Gerber senses Michelle is one of two children and describes a sharp, well-read father who followed current events and markets closely, which Michelle confirms. A second male presence follows, and Michelle reveals her brother is also in spirit, killed instantly in a car accident with no known prior health issue, a passing Michelle says she still questions. Gerber offers several impressions, including foreign coins found in the family house, a Winnebago motorhome her father drove on family trips, and an occasional after-dinner cigarette her brother sometimes smoked, all of which Michelle confirms to varying degrees. Names like Benny, Pat, and Bill draw no recognition. Gerber senses Michelle is weighed down by sorting sentimental belongings left behind, which Michelle confirms she is doing in her basement, and passes along her father's encouragement to ask for help rather than carry the task alone.

Ariel's Grandmother Sends Signs From Spirit

The final call comes from Ariel in New Mexico, and Gerber connects with a maternal-side grandmother rather than Ariel's still-living mother. She describes a beautiful, simple-living woman who painted, especially flowers, kept a garden, and wrote personal notes inside cards she exchanged with Ariel, all of which Ariel confirms. Gerber mentions a California connection to living relatives and a great-uncle nearing the end of his life, details Ariel verifies. An image of a towering tree leads Gerber to say the word Sequoia, and Ariel confirms she has visited Sequoia National Park. Gerber notes Ariel wears her grandmother's ring and describes a maiden name starting with M, both validated. She adds that Ariel has recently felt a touch on her head, which Ariel says she and her mother already recognize as a sign from her grandmother. Perreta then thanks Joanne Gerber, directs listeners to joannegerber.com and the Forever Family Foundation's medium list, and closes the broadcast reminding listeners that loved ones remain, as he puts it, a heartbeat away.

Junk Refund Show with Alan Cook

From a Twisted Ankle to a Temple in Cleveland: A Week Inside the Junk Refund Business

Host Alan Cook recounts a rain-soaked day of junk removal jobs, a broken rental truck and an ankle injury at the scrap yard, a quick trip to visit the new Cleveland Ohio Temple, and a decluttering client who happens to share his name with a famous golfer.

Fresh Off Two Jobs and a Rainstorm

Alan Cook opens the show still damp from an afternoon rain shower, fresh off two jobs in the Washington, D.C. area. He describes clearing part of a storage unit in Laurel, Maryland, for a client named Jewel, noting with amusement that nearly everything she owns is lavender, from her T-shirt to her phone case. Earlier that morning he helped a longtime customer named Archie load up a driveway full of items. Both jobs used the company's Groupon special, a pickup truck load of junk removal for ninety-nine dollars instead of the usual two hundred twenty-nine. Cook explains the yearly birthday voucher he sells every May, discounted to match his age, sixty-eight dollars this year, and the radio-only deal available by calling in during the broadcast and leaving a name with producer Don, who passes the information along so Cook can follow up after the show.

The Four-Part Junk Refund System

Cook lays out the mechanics behind 1-800-Junk-Refund. Every job gets sorted four ways: true junk goes to the dump, metal and wire are recycled, usable items like clothing and dishes go to charity with a donation receipt sent back to the customer, and anything that looks sellable is listed, with the customer receiving thirty-five percent once it sells for twenty dollars or more. He runs through pricing, a twelve-foot box truck around six hundred ninety-five dollars, a pickup load at two hundred twenty-nine, and a one-hundred-nineteen-dollar minimum for something like a single refrigerator pickup. Referrals from realtors earn customers ten percent off, and paying in advance earns another ten percent. He also plugs free scrap-metal pickups around the D.C. area and his habit of running thirty-day Craigslist ads for five dollars, which he credits with generating thousands of dollars in scrap and cleanout business over the years.

A Referral, a Broken Truck, and a Bad Fall

Cook credits realtor Mike Parente for a referral to a couple named the Millers in North Potomac, Maryland, a job that started rough. Days before the scheduled start, the company's rental box truck loses power after a diesel exhaust fluid sensor malfunctions and limits it to thirty-five miles per hour, and it stays in the shop for over a week. Cook shows up to the multi-thousand-dollar cleanout with a pickup truck instead. At the scrap yard, he steps into a dip in the pavement, rolls his ankle, and falls backward onto a pile of scrap pipes, badly scraping his knee and thumb and losing the ability to put weight on his foot. He fashions a cane from the handle of a discarded floor-waxing machine and keeps working. A Zelle payment from Mr. Miller is delayed several days by bank limits, leaving him briefly without cash to pay his crew, but the job still wraps up in roughly nineteen pickup truck loads.

Movie Chairs From a Mansion in Great Falls

Back from the injury, Cook turns to a job for a friend named Brian in Great Falls, Virginia, a former Bank of America mortgage employee who now buys and flips distressed properties. Brian tells Cook the first sign of a distressed home is overgrown landscaping, since upkeep is usually the first expense an owner cuts. Brian, who has built a mansion with an indoor theater seating twelve in stadium-style rows, is replacing worn reclining movie chairs and hires the crew to haul the old ones away. Cook and his helper June load the chairs, heavy with metal frames and upholstery, into a pickup truck and a repurposed SUV outfitted with a salvaged rear cargo carrier. The scrap yard pays for some loads of chair bases but rejects one for having too much upholstery and not enough metal, so that load goes to the regular dump instead, wrapping up a job worth about eight hundred fifty dollars.

A Fast Trip to the Cleveland Temple

With his ankle still tender, Cook takes off for one of his long-running personal projects: visiting temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world, a hobby that has taken him to roughly one hundred thirty of the church's temples over about nine years. He flies Southwest from Baltimore to Cleveland for fifty-nine dollars each way, takes a cheaper Lyft over an Uber to reach the new Cleveland Ohio Temple in Independence, Ohio, and spends a couple of hours there before heading back to the airport. Rather than pay for a hotel, he sleeps for free on a cushioned bench near a not-yet-open Chick-fil-A, phone charging nearby, and boards his six a.m. flight home. He recounts a story from his friend Thayne, who volunteers at the temple and was invited into the small celestial room when one of the church's Twelve Apostles dedicated the building in mid-August.

Family, John Daly, and Giving Back

Cook shifts to family news, describing his son-in-law Jake's surprise-hit class on parallels between The Lord of the Rings and the Gospel of Jesus Christ during Brigham Young University's Education Week, which drew about four hundred people a night. He also has fun with a client named John Daly, sharing on Facebook that the crew is cleaning out John Daly's home and letting followers assume it is the golfer before clarifying it is simply a client sharing the name. Cook describes using AI to build mailing lists of realtors and gas stations for postcard marketing, and warns listeners that storage units can quietly drain thousands of dollars from people holding onto things they never use. He closes with a personal tithing habit, giving back ten percent quickly after each job, a National Cathedral appearance by church president Dallin H. Oaks the night before, and an update that his twice-injured ankles are nearly back to full strength.

Sons of Liberty Radio with Bradlee Dean

The Efficacy of Salt: Vaccine Deaths, a Rigged Mayor, and the Cowardice of American Pulpits

Broadcasting alone, Bradlee Dean builds an hour around what he calls the efficacy of salt, moving from anger over vaccine deaths and a broken Reagan-era promise to a claim that the CIA installed New York's mayor, and closing with a call for gutless preachers to find their courage, with call-ins from Monk in Colorado and Bev in Wisconsin.

A Founders' Prayer Opens the Hour

The broadcast opens with a recording of Elbridge Gerry's Thanksgiving prayer, the Declaration of Independence signer thanking Providence for the gospel of Jesus Christ while confessing what he calls America's "unparalleled ingratitude." After the show's theme and disclaimer, Bradlee Dean greets "friends as well as a few enemies, scoffers, atheists, skeptics, lunatics, weirdos and assorted bad guys" and tells listeners the hour will center on what he calls the efficacy of salt. He directs viewers to sonsoflibertymedia.com and beforeitsnews.com for video clips referenced during the show, reads out the call-in number, and citing Jude 3 and 4 invites callers pro or con. Dean reminds first-time listeners that Sons of Liberty exists so people think for themselves rather than make others "the measure of their conduct," warning it is a terrible place to be when a person's brains are in someone else's head.

Vaccine Deaths and Political Scapegoats

Dean pivots to a scroll of young people he says are dying suddenly, citing a report of a 13-year-old South Carolina boy who suffered cardiac arrest during football practice. He turns to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling her actions comparable to Adolf Hitler's family before clarifying he is being facetious, and accuses her of blaming Bill Gates for pressuring policymakers on vaccination while ignoring officials who, he says, sold themselves out "like Judas did for thirty pieces of silver." Citing a claim that thirty million vaccinated people are no longer alive, Dean plays a video clip on vaccine statistics and repeats a figure of 755 percent. He revisits Ronald Reagan's broken campaign promise to end abortion, recounting a Reagan-era judicial contact who told him Reagan said there was nothing to be done, then walks through the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, arguing it indemnified pharmaceutical manufacturers rather than the public.

Callers Monk and Bev Weigh In

After a break featuring a Tom Raymond testimonial and event promos, Dean takes a call from Monk, who reports the show is off the air on KHNC 1360 in Johnstown, Colorado; Dean promises to contact station engineer Jason and later confirms the signal is restored. Bev from Wisconsin calls next to note that not every young athlete's death traces to vaccination, some dying of dehydration during sports; Dean acknowledges the point but says it does not excuse pharmaceutical companies he holds responsible for other deaths. He then turns to a report headlined "Trump says we have to bring religion back," criticizing televangelist Paula White for standing at the center of what he calls an ecumenical, one-world church movement, before playing a video compilation touching on Donald Trump, Kabbalah, Marla Maples, and Jared Kushner that he says proves the push for a one-world religion is already underway.

New York, Mamdani, and the Salt of the Earth

Dean turns to a New York-based Christian broadcaster he heard that morning claiming the city's roughly nine million residents have been overtaken by its estimated 750,000 Muslims. Dean argues the same 750,000 figure represents New Yorkers who signed recall petitions against Mayor Mamdani, whom he says the CIA installed in office, calling the agency "the American version of the Gestapo" and citing former officer John Stockwell. He labels the broadcaster an effeminate, unconverted "succumber to the spirit of the world" for spreading fear rather than standing firm, invoking Isaiah 8:20 and Psalm 78:9's account of the children of Ephraim turning back in battle. Quoting Matthew 5:13, Jesus calling believers "the salt of the earth," Dean argues the church exists to halt a nation's moral decay, recounting the Black Robe Regiment of fifty-six signers who trusted God during the Revolution and comparing today's timid preachers to Israelites who refused Joshua and Caleb's report in Numbers 14.

D. James Kennedy and the Cowardice of Pulpits

Dean recalls conversations with the late D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries in Fort Lauderdale, who told him three hundred thousand American pulpits hide behind 501(c)(3) status out of unwarranted fear, since no church has ever actually lost that status. He repeats Kennedy's answer to a visiting minister who asked why his church was being protested, that men wanting to marry men and women wanting to marry women were the reason, and adds that churches which invited Dean to speak stopped inviting him back once protests began. Moving into a passage on the prophets, Dean likens today's preachers to Jeremiah's description of "clouds without rain," men never driven to the cross by the law and therefore preaching a "dead letter" to dead congregations. He argues government reflects decay that starts inside the church, and that decadence, not poverty, has destroyed the greater number of nations throughout history.

Deuteronomy 8 and a Call to Preserve

Closing the hour, Dean reads Deuteronomy 8:10-14 warning Israel not to forget God after eating, building houses, and multiplying silver and gold, applying the passage directly to a prosperous modern America. He returns once more to Matthew 5:13, restating that salt losing its savor becomes fit only to be cast out and trampled, and works through the words preserve, meaning to defend from evil, and seasoning, meaning to grow fit for use, framing genuine conservatives as preservatives against a decaying culture. Citing Ephesians 5:11 on reproving the works of darkness and Matthew 5:16 on good works glorifying God, Dean says his own answer is action rather than commentary, listing the radio show, sonsoflibertymedia.com, billboards, paper ads, and an appearance planned in Princeton that Saturday. He signs off naming empty "professors" who talk without doing as his real opposition, telling listeners he will return in twenty-three hours and closing, "love you by what we do."

Hollywood and Horsepower Show with Mark Otto

The first in a series, "The path to the comedy stage", what comedians go through to get into show business and entertainment

Boston's Comedy Boom, the Art of Building a Set, and Johnny Carson's Magic Touch with Michael Blowen

Mark Otto opens a new series on the history of stand-up comedy with former Boston Globe entertainment writer Michael Blowen, who covered the city's comedy clubs through the 1980s and shares stories of Steven Wright, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Johnny Carson's outsized influence on young comics.

Kicking Off A Series On Comedy History

Mark Otto opens the Hollywood and Horsepower Show with his usual thanks to sponsor Tony's Steaks and Seafood before explaining that the episode is the first in a new series on the history of comedy, recorded a day ahead for broadcast. He tells listeners the plan is to show the many different paths comedians take to build a career, since most people assume every comic simply walks onto an open mic and takes off. His guest is Michael Blowen, a former entertainment writer for The Boston Globe who covered comedy through the 1980s. Otto notes that Blowen was one of the first journalists anywhere to treat stand-up as a beat worth covering, at a time before the internet gave comics their own websites and profiles. Blowen agrees, recalling that covering movies meant competing with two or three other writers at every paper, while Boston's booming comedy scene offered him an almost uncontested subject and comics who were unusually accessible to a reporter looking for real stories.

Boston Becomes A Comedy Breeding Ground

Otto and Blowen dig into what made Boston different from Chicago, New York, or Toronto: its clubs actually paid comics well enough to make a living. Blowen credits Emerson College, where he taught, as a breeding ground for talent, naming Steven Wright and Mike McDonald as students who worked out material there before testing it onstage at night. He recalls that Jay Leno and Henry Winkler both went to Emerson, and that Leno has told the story of playing drums in a strip joint at the edge of the Combat Zone to work his way through school. Otto adds a favorite detail, that Leno once prepped and cleaned a new car for Robert Klein at a Boston dealership before ever meeting him as a fellow comic. Blowen praises Wright as an underrated genius who built his act by trying ideas out in class and then testing them live, and he stresses that facing an unfamiliar crowd with unproven material takes real courage, since a comic alone onstage has nowhere to hide.

The Discipline Behind A Polished Act

Otto calls stand-up the most honest form of entertainment because the audience's reaction is immediate and unarguable, a point Blowen echoes by comparing comics to cliff jumpers who must keep leaping to stay sharp. Blowen offers Chris Rock as his sharpest example of discipline, describing a night at Bill Blumenreich's Comedy Connection when Rock spent hours polishing just four jokes, playing each one like a musician adjusting tempo and emphasis and recording every version on a cassette recorder to study later. Otto contrasts that meticulous approach with true improvisers such as Don Rickles, who worked largely off the crowd itself, and recalls Frank Santorelli telling him that comics once wrote together in groups of four or five, tailoring bits to each other's styles, a practice Otto says has faded as performers have grown more independent. Blowen notes that Boston's clubs, unlike Chicago's or New York's more competitive rooms, paid comics well enough that many built entire careers without ever leaving the city, citing Lenny Clarke and Steve Sweeney as examples still working decades later.

Stolen Jokes And Rodney Dangerfield's Code

The conversation turns to the darker side of the business, the material theft that shaped how comics protected their work. Blowen recalls a running joke of his own, an unmade movie idea about warring comedy club owners feuding like mobsters, inspired by real stories of comics who stole each other's bits and clubs that quietly punished the thieves. Otto brings up Milton Berle's reputation as a notorious joke pirate, and Blowen counters with Rodney Dangerfield, who ran his own club, Dangerfield's, and paid comics twenty-five or fifty dollars per joke, once spending months tracking down the true author of a bit he suspected had been stolen so the original writer could finally be paid. Otto adds a story about Dennis Miller, who has said that watching an unnamed comic perform one of Miller's own jokes on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was the moment that pushed him to finally build a real act of his own, determined never to be the writer left off the couch again.

Comic Geniuses From Jeni To Wright

Blowen shares memories of comics he calls genuine originals. He remembers Richard Jeni, creator of the Platypus Man character, and Albert Brooks, describing both as comics who saw the world in a way that seemed almost genetic, recalling Rob Reiner's story that his father Carl Reiner once called the teenage Albert Brooks the funniest person he had ever met. Blowen calls Richard Pryor a fearless genius, comparing him to Otto Preminger's description of the rare director who never has to work at the craft, and recounts how Columbia blocked Pryor from starring in Blazing Saddles despite his writing much of the script for Mel Brooks. He praises George Carlin as timeless, tracing Carlin's start as a Boston disc jockey doing weather reports from a street-level studio at the Statler Hotel under the character Hippy Dippy Weatherman, long before his political satire took shape. Blowen also singles out Steven Wright, noting that Wright delivered his strangest lines without ever smiling, which only deepened the effect of his material.

Johnny Carson's Couch And What Comes Next

The two turn to Johnny Carson's Tonight Show as the moment that could remake a comic's career, agreeing that a strong set, and especially an invitation to sit on the couch, could set phones ringing with club bookings overnight. Otto recalls hearing that Carson would lean in during commercial breaks to quietly coach nervous young comics on their sets, and both agree Carson stayed funny even when a joke bombed, which Blowen says made him feel human to millions of viewers. Blowen recalls listening to Conan O'Brien rehearse jokes above a Cambridge Chinese restaurant early in his career, working out timing alone with a notepad long before he became a host himself. Otto reflects that many performers spend a decade or more grinding through clubs before any breakthrough, and that writers such as Jack Handey and Robert Smigel shaped shows without ever seeking the spotlight themselves. Closing the hour, Otto thanks Blowen, plugs Tony's Steaks and Seafood again, and previews next week's guest, comic and actor Frank Santorelli, who will dig deeper into the Boston scene.

Brother Jim Shaw Ministries

Ep 193 Freed from the yoke of bondage

The Yoke of Bondage: Paul's Warning Against Ritual and Circumcision in Galatians 5

Brother Jim Shaw preaches through Galatians chapter 5, warning that rituals and traditions, like the push toward circumcision in the Galatian church, can quietly become idols that steal focus from Jesus Christ, and he calls listeners to stand fast in the liberty of the Holy Spirit rather than slide back into the bondage of the law.

Paul's Warning to the Galatian Church

Brother Jim Shaw opens the broadcast turning to Paul's letter to the Galatian church in chapter five, explaining that Paul confronts believers who want to slide back into the rituals of the old law. Brother Jim warns that whatever spiritual awakening is happening, Satan works constantly to turn Jesus into an idol rather than everything, using rituals and traditions to convince people they must follow certain rules to qualify as Christian. He reads Paul's charge to "stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free" and not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage, noting that every religion carries some form of bondage. Recalling Jesus's words to the woman at the well, that the kingdom of God is not found on a mountain but comes without observation, Brother Jim tells listeners that Christ is found within a person, not through outward locations or observances, though fellowship at church still has its place.

Circumcision Declared Powerless To Save

Brother Jim Shaw turns to Paul's blunt statement in Galatians 5:2, reading it twice for emphasis: "Behold, I Paul say unto you that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." He explains that the Galatians, being Gentiles, were never circumcised under the Abrahamic covenant, yet some in the church were pushing this ritual as a requirement. Brother Jim notes that accepting circumcision would obligate a believer to keep the entire law, an impossible burden now that God's law is written on the heart rather than carried out through rules from Leviticus and Deuteronomy. He reads Paul's warning that Christ becomes of no effect to anyone who seeks justification through the law, and that such a person has fallen from grace. Brother Jim lists other religious trappings sarcastically, holy water, incense, ornate robes, crucifixes, and feast days, saying loading up on ritual only proves how far a believer has drifted from grace.

Mankind's Love Of Rituals And Clubs

Brother Jim Shaw observes that mankind has always loved rituals and belonging to organized groups, pointing to the Moose Club, the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the American Legion, and the VFW as evidence that people crave being part of a team. He argues that if believers want to belong to Jesus Christ's team, none of these outward structures are needed and can actually get in the way of genuine faith. Returning to Paul's letter, he reads the apostle's pointed question to the Galatians, asking who bewitched them and who snuck in to hinder them from obeying the truth. Brother Jim reminds listeners that circumcision was the single most important ritual in the Jewish religion, the very first instruction God gave Abraham, marking his family apart from every other nation. He stresses that Paul is not condemning the ritual's history but warning against reviving it now that Jesus Christ has established a new and living covenant.

A New Covenant Written On The Heart

Brother Jim Shaw explains that under the new covenant, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Father dwell directly within a believer's heart, convicting of sin and supplying the power to raise the shield of faith against the devil's attacks. He warns, using Paul's image, that a little leaven leavens the whole lump, meaning that allowing even one small ritual back into the church opens the door for many more to follow. Brother Jim reads Paul's confidence that the Galatians will return to right thinking, alongside his warning that whoever troubled them with this false teaching would bear judgment for deceiving people with something other than Jesus Christ crucified. He tells listeners that a physical church building offers comfort, climate control, seating, music, and a good message, but none of that is the true church. The true church, he says, is made up of living stones, believers scattered throughout the world, and anything added to that simple truth only complicates it.

Called Unto Liberty, Not License

Brother Jim Shaw reads Paul's frustration boiling over, wishing that those troubling the Galatians with circumcision would be cut off entirely, since preaching circumcision alongside the cross would remove the offense of the cross itself. He reads Paul's declaration that believers "have been called unto liberty," paired immediately with the caution not to use that liberty as an occasion for the flesh but instead to serve one another through love. Brother Jim explains that the whole law is fulfilled in one command, to love thy neighbor as thyself, and shares what he describes as a personal revelation from the Lord about that verse: loving one's neighbor requires first learning to love oneself, which happens only by keeping the first commandment and loving God completely. He describes himself as a piece of clay reporting for duty daily, saying that seeing himself and others through the eyes of Jesus is what allows genuine love for a neighbor to follow.

Walking In The Spirit, Not The Flesh

Brother Jim Shaw closes the sermon with Paul's warning against believers biting and devouring one another, urging listeners instead to walk in the Spirit so they will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. He tells the audience to take every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ, reminding them that Satan's war targets the carnal mind and that the flesh and the Spirit remain in constant conflict, each contrary to the other. Brother Jim declares that the old man must be put to death, since believers can no longer live as they once did, and calls this transformation into a new creation in Christ good news secured by what Jesus accomplished at Calvary. He closes the broadcast with a blessing and an amen. The announcer then returns with closing information, directing listeners to www.brotherjimshaw.org, a PO Box in Vero Beach, Florida, a phone number for the ministry, and a YouTube page carrying further messages from Brother Jim.

Tony Alamo

Ep 264 How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 162

A 1974 Sermon From Susan Alamo, Acts' Ananias and Sapphira, and Revelation's 144,000 Sealed Jews

Tony Alamo opens his broadcast by replaying a 1974 sermon his late wife Susan Alamo preached on the early church's boldness and the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, then returns himself to teach on Revelation's 144,000 sealed Jews before he and co-host Sharon Alamo read conversion letters from Nigeria, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Opening Prayer and a Promised Message

Tony Alamo opens the broadcast introducing himself as world pastor and tells listeners today's program is a special treat: a message his late wife, Susan Alamo, delivered on March 10, 1974, which he says remains as timely now as the day she preached it. He explains that letters and reports from churches and listeners around the world will be read later in the hour, then leads an opening prayer asking the Lord to anoint the broadcast, declaring that Susan was anointed more strongly than any other preacher of her time and asking that radio listeners receive her message, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and be saved. Before playing her sermon, he introduces H.B. Barnum, the Los Angeles church's music director, crediting him with arrangements for Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Frank Sinatra, and praising his choir's recording of Jesus Loves Me. He says Barnum may surprise the studio with a visit.

Susan Alamo Preaches Acts on Boldness

Susan Alamo's 1974 sermon opens with a joke about "holy roller" churches before she turns to Acts chapter four, reading how the apostles, freed by the authorities, report to their company and pray together for boldness rather than safety, and how the place is shaken and the believers filled with the Holy Ghost. She reads on into the shared ownership of the early church, where believers sold their possessions and laid the proceeds at the apostles' feet so that no one lacked. She then reads the account of Ananias and Sapphira from Acts chapter five, the couple who sold land, secretly kept back part of the price, lied to the Holy Ghost about it, and fell down dead one after the other before the frightened congregation. Susan Alamo draws a direct line from that ancient persecution to her own era, saying believers are living through the same uprising against the people of God that the early church faced after Jesus' crucifixion.

Wesley, Luther, and a Church Grown Comfortable

Susan Alamo traces the Pentecostal movement's history, recalling how its founders were once spat upon and scorned, only for their churches to grow wealthy and drift into what she calls ordinary social religion, losing their original power and turning against later moves of the Holy Spirit. She singles out John Wesley as a despised, defiant outsider who preached hellfire rather than polite platitudes, and Martin Luther, who came out of Catholicism insisting salvation is by faith rather than works and that human righteousness is worthless before a holy God. Both men, she says, were tortured and threatened, yet built movements that later generations diluted beyond recognition. She turns this history against her own time, describing young people in the streets singing that God is dead despite America's self-image as a Christian nation, and criticizing missionary slide shows that boast of buildings in Africa with only a handful of worshippers standing outside them, insisting what the mission field needs is people, not architecture.

Tribulation, Chemical Fertilizer, and an Altar Call

Susan Alamo condemns segregated Southern churches that claimed to be washed in the blood of Christ while barring worshippers of another race, insisting believers become one in Jesus regardless of what critics say. She tells listeners God is raising up young people rather than the middle-aged, warning parents who resist their children's calling that they should count it a blessing instead. Turning to the physical world, she blames chemical fertilizers and processed food, stripped of wheat germ and natural sugar, for a rise in cancer she says was unknown before the eighteenth century, and declares the tribulation and the war of Armageddon are already underway, not events reserved for the future. Recalling the old brush-arbor revivals of the South, she closes with an old-fashioned altar call, telling listeners this is the greatest decision of their lives and rejecting quiet, secretive conversions in favor of an open walk to the front. The congregation sings There's Room at the Cross for You as she finishes.

Tony Alamo Returns to Revelation's 144,000

As the hymn ends, Tony Alamo takes the microphone back from his late wife's recording and tells listeners the earth is at the end of time, pointing to Revelation chapter seven's teaching that 144,000 Jews are being sealed with the Father's mark before the plagues of chapter eight fall, including a judgment he says will kill roughly two billion of the world's six billion people. He leads a spoken salvation prayer, inviting listeners driving in traffic or anywhere else to ask Jesus to wash away their sins and to raise their hands in praise once they believe they are saved. He then teaches on healing and provision, saying Christ became a curse on the cross so that sickness, poverty, and need can be lifted from believers by faith alone. Reading a listener letter from Nigeria with Sharon Alamo, he digresses into an extended attack on the Vatican and the Muslim faith, citing Alberto Rivera's Chick Publications book and calling the Catholic Church the great whore of Revelation that empowered Islam.

Letters of Conversion Close the Hour

Sharon Alamo continues reading the letter from a Nigerian listener named Issachar, a former Muslim who says he and his family of thirteen, including multiple wives, now follow the ministry's Radio Africa broadcast and are studying the Bible together, prompting Tony Alamo to note how former enemies now pray for the church instead of threatening it. Sharon reports that the ministry's newspaper placements in the Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, New York Daily News, and papers across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and California are drawing more responses, including a Houston caller moved to tears by the Dry Bones article who said the sinner's prayer over the phone and requested CDs, The Messiah book, and Tony Alamo's testimony. A further testimony describes an Oklahoma state official, a Jewish man, saved after reading Dry Bones in the Oklahoman and now attending a nondenominational church. Tony Alamo closes the broadcast thanking listeners for their salvation and playing a recording of Swing Down Chariot with the Stamps Quartet.

Sound Pathways with Karen Olson Ph.D.

Finding Her Voice: Jazz, The Devil I Knew, and the Ladder to Dreams with Nicole Zuraitis

Two-time Grammy winner Nicole Zuraitis joins Dr. Karen Olson to trace her path from a shy childhood singer to a celebrated jazz artist, talking about her new album The Devil I Knew, her marriage to drummer Dan Pugach, and her advocacy for musicians and rescue animals.

Welcome and a Warm Introduction

Dr. Karen Olson opens Sound Pathways by dedicating the episode to her late mother, Dorothy Olson, and welcoming two-time Grammy winner and six-time nominee Nicole Zuraitis as her guest. Olson describes Zuraitis as a singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, bandleader and advocate who is shaping a modern songbook within jazz, and she speaks with emotion about witnessing Zuraitis's artistry firsthand, especially on her new album, The Devil I Knew. She calls the record deep, intricate and original, admitting she wants to keep learning from it. Zuraitis, visibly moved, jokes that Olson is making her cry before the conversation even begins, and the two quickly settle into what they call a mutual admiration society. Olson notes the wonder of Zuraitis's constantly touring life, connecting it playfully to the show's own theme of sound pathways, before asking her guest to take listeners back to the very beginning of her musical life.

Finding Her Voice

Zuraitis explains that her parents first noticed her singing harmony to the television before she could hold a full conversation, even though no one else in the family was a musician. She was too shy to perform for them directly and sang only alone until she was eleven, when she surprised everyone at a school talent show with a recorded piano track of Don't Cry for Me Argentina from Evita. She wanted to sing Whitney Houston but says she simply did not yet have the voice for it. From there she moved through classical voice training, opera and trombone before jazz found her again after college, when she realized she wanted to create rather than only interpret. Learning the language and tradition of jazz took roughly six years, and she says she did not feel she had anything genuine to say as a jazz artist until she was twenty-nine, calling herself, cheerfully, a late bloomer.

Making Her Own Spoon

Olson reflects on the unseen years of practice rooms and rejection behind any artist's polish, and Zuraitis agrees, warning young musicians against expecting instant stardom. She says there was no silver spoon handed to her, so she had to make her own spoon through years of searching. The turning point came when her husband, Grammy-winning drummer and composer Dan Pugach, urged her to apply for a Herb Alpert Young Jazz ASCAP Award just before she turned thirty, despite her own doubts about being a real jazz singer. Winning it, followed later by recognition in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, began chipping away at her imposter syndrome. During those years she also built a songwriting practice through residencies at New York rooms including the 55 Bar, Rockwood, Toshi's Living Room and the Sugar Bar, playing original material for live audiences and treating each gig as a gift rather than an obligation.

Stages, Crowds, and Why She Sings

Olson shares her own history playing in an Atlantic City house band behind Rat Pack headliners including Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, and later performing with the New York Pops, prompting a conversation about what it is like to move between electric full houses and quieter, less attentive rooms. Zuraitis describes selling out a two-thousand-seat theater in Taiwan she never expected to visit, while struggling to fill a small California venue, and says touring keeps teaching her to adjust and keep growing. Asked why she chose music as a career, she traces it to watching the towers fall on 9/11 as a high school sophomore and then watching the Concert for New York soon after, in tears, realizing that music was helping people move through grief. That moment convinced her she wanted to be the person someone needs when they are struggling, and it remains, she says, the reason she cares so deeply about her audience.

The Story Behind The Devil I Knew

Zuraitis traces the title of her new album to two conversations, one with a friend describing a painful pattern as the devil she knew, another with a friend who recognized she had become the villain in someone else's story. Both ideas pushed her toward an album built around self-reckoning rather than blame, structured in five chapters she names Mirror, Martyr, Malediction, Reckoning and Requiem, and threaded with the words of women poets from more than a century ago exploring stages of grief. Producer Larry Klein helped choose and sequence the songs, including Let Us Hang, a piece he co-wrote with Steely Dan's Walter Becker that Zuraitis initially resisted as too light before agreeing the record needed its levity. She also describes reclaiming loaded words like devil and witch, pointing to the double standard between how society judges men and women, and mentions merchandise reading Support Women's Wrongs as a playful extension of that theme.

Advocacy, Partnership, and the Next Step

The conversation turns to Zuraitis's advocacy for animals, which she says began after she rescued a nine-month-old pit bull mix from euthanasia after moving back to New York City in 2009. She invokes the starfish fable to explain why she keeps rescuing dogs despite the scale of shelter euthanasia in America, saying she can still make a difference to the one animal in front of her. She speaks warmly about her marriage to drummer Dan Pugach, describing a partnership built on humor, mutual respect and shared growth, and reflects on performing for audiences who do not speak English yet still feel every song. Olson closes the hour by praising Zuraitis's honesty and generosity, then invites listeners to name one delayed dream and take a real, concrete next step toward it, echoing the ladder metaphor Zuraitis used earlier before sending listeners off with blessings and namaste.

All The Way Live with Beverly Medley

Divine Order, a Lost Pocketbook, and the Practice of Presence and Non-Judgment

Beverly Medley hosts a solo hour of All The Way Live, reflecting on divine order, karma, and the belief that everyone is exactly where they are meant to be, and shares a personal story about a lost pocketbook returned by a stranger at a thrift store.

A Show That Opens With Gratitude

Beverly Medley opens the broadcast still glowing from a conversation she just had with two of the station's owners. She tells listeners she has never met them in person but feels their warmth and calm every time they speak, and she marvels that people who have lived through hardship can still radiate so much love. That feeling launches her into the hour's central idea: everything on this planet is organized, and every person is always exactly where they are supposed to be, whether or not they like the outcome. She tells the audience that nothing happens by accident or bad luck, that people are simply the common denominator in their own lives, and that asking sincerely for guidance brings answers when a person is ready to receive them. The tone is warm and unhurried, setting up a solo hour built entirely around her own reflections rather than scripted topics or a booked guest.

Divine Order and the Weight of Judgment

Beverly develops the idea that every person carries a story, and that recognizing this makes blame nearly impossible. Parents, exes, teachers, and strangers are all people someone was destined to encounter, she says, however painful the relationship turned out to be. She tells listeners not to be quick to judge a father who left or a partner who hurt them, because that person's own past life and choices shaped who they became. She urges going within to what she calls the all-seeing eye rather than trusting only the physical eyes, so that a person can pause before reacting instead of speaking from raw emotion. She adds that everyone eventually receives exactly what they deserve, so listeners do not need to worry about seeing others punished or rewarded. She compares this order to the reliability of sunrise, sunset, and the changing seasons, arguing that human life follows the same precise, unshakable design even when it feels unfair.

Shedding Meat, Sugar, and Old Habits

Beverly turns to her own history, recalling how she gave up meat, sugar, cigarettes, and alcohol despite knowing almost no one who lived that way at the time. She says she needed to get rid of all the dead animals in her body and clear the sugar from her veins before she could truly see clearly, and once she did, everything in her life shifted. None of her four siblings or her parents shared any interest in that path, yet she frames the difference as simply the situation she was born into rather than a mystery to solve. She describes feeling grateful rather than curious about why she alone changed direction, saying the transformation flushed away years of what she calls yucky filth. The story becomes another example of her larger theme: her body's cleanse was preparation for a deeper mental and spiritual cleanse that continues to shape how she carries herself today.

The Thrift Store and the Returned Pocketbook

Beverly tells a long, detailed story about a recent trip to a thrift store, a favorite habit from childhood when her father used to bring home secondhand clothes. While deep in conversation with a family member, she leaves her cart, and with it her pocketbook holding a large sum of cash and every card she owns, unattended among fifty or sixty shoppers. Panicked, she checks her car, finds nothing, then asks a young clerk if anyone turned in a bag. A woman had handed it in minutes earlier without asking for a reward or having it announced over the loudspeaker, and left before Beverly could thank her. Beverly reads the moment as proof that everything is synchronized and mathematical, crediting what she calls an Underground Soul Network for placing the right stranger at the right place at the right time. She says the episode is one of several similar experiences she has had after asking, in her words, to always be protected.

Marriage, Support, and Building a Restaurant

Beverly reflects on her thirty-year marriage, explaining that she and her husband ate and lived identically until she changed her diet seven years in. He never adopted the new lifestyle himself but never criticized her either, and she continued cooking his meals while raising their two children on her own eating principles. She calls his quiet support unusual for their circle at the time and credits it as part of her larger karmic story. The couple watched their children thrive, which eased any doubts he had. From that foundation she describes starting a restaurant with her daughter in 2008 with no prior experience in the business, a venture she says continues successfully today. She frames the restaurant, also called All The Way Live, as an extension of the same lifelong cleanse and transformation she has been describing, something she feels she is meant to do in this lifetime regardless of how demanding the work can be.

Closing Lessons on Judgment and Gratitude

Nearing the end of the hour, Beverly recalls a moment when her children, then roughly eight and twelve, watched a news report about two young women who died fleeing police after a theft and declared that the victims deserved it. She corrected them gently, admitting she had stolen things herself when younger, and urged her children not to judge quickly because everyone carries a story, including people society condemns. She warns listeners that much of what feels like clear moral judgment is really inherited indoctrination rather than a person's own examined belief, and encourages going within to test what one actually thinks. She closes the broadcast expressing gratitude for the hour and for her listeners, describing love not as sentimentality but as a quiet inner peace toward life and other people. Beverly mentions needing to return to the restaurant, which opens the next day, and signs off until next week's show plays the program's closing musical performance.