Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp

Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp

New Details on the 1947 Roswell Crash, Alien Bodies, and the Cover-Up with Tom Carey

Mary Jane Popp welcomes veteran Roswell investigator Tom Carey back to the show to revisit the 1947 New Mexico crash, the alien bodies he says were recovered afterward, and decades of government secrecy that followed.

A Familiar Guest Returns to Roswell

Mary Jane Popp opens the show promising an incredible hour with a returning guest whose research on Roswell keeps turning up new evidence. She introduces Tom Carey, an Air Force veteran who once held a top-secret crypto clearance and has spent decades investigating the 1947 New Mexico crash, describing his books Witness to Roswell, The Children of Roswell, and Touched by Roswell, plus his work on Area 51 and his appearances with Oprah, 48 Hours, and Coast to Coast with George Noory. Carey explains he became involved in 1991, made his first trip to Roswell in 1993 thinking he had seen everything there was to see, and is still working the case decades later. He tells Popp that after years of searching for new witnesses, the proactive investigation is essentially finished because the last firsthand witnesses have died, though he and his team have gathered several hundred first- and second-hand accounts that, he says, give them the full story already.

Major Marcel and the Wreckage at Home

Popp and Carey recount the night Major Jesse Marcel, the base intelligence officer at Roswell Army Airfield, became the first military man to reach the crash site and stopped at home with a car full of strange wreckage before returning to base. Carey says Marcel's son, the late Jesse Marcel Jr., told him his father believed immediately that the debris was from a flying saucer, something that came to Earth but was not of it. Carey explains investigators believe the craft exploded midair during a thunderstorm, scattering hand-sized fragments across one site, while two alien occupants thrown from the blast died about two and a half miles away; a separate escape capsule carrying three more occupants flew on nearly thirty miles before crashing, where archaeologists found two dead and one still alive the next day, July 7th, bringing the total to five extraterrestrial biological entities. Popp recalls interviewing Jesse Marcel Jr. years earlier and confirms his account of his father being threatened into silence about what he had seen.

Dan Dwyer Meets a Child of the Earth

Carey shares what he calls one of the best-documented accounts of the bodies, from Roswell fireman Dan Dwyer, who ignored orders to stay away from the crash site thirty miles north of town. Dwyer reportedly found the egg-shaped capsule, about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, along with two dead occupants, then noticed a third moving nearby, alive and walking around. Carey says Dwyer later told his family the creature communicated with him telepathically, in their heads, describing it as strikingly frail with an oversized pear-shaped head, slanted eyes, no ears or nose, and a mouth that led nowhere inside. Asked what it looked like, Dwyer reportedly called it a child of the earth, a phrase locals recognized as describing the pink, oval-headed Jerusalem cricket. Carey says the creature reassured Dwyer not to worry, that its comrades were dead and it accepted its fate, before military personnel arrived, took custody, and threatened Dwyer and his family into silence, much as they had threatened Sheriff George Wilcox and others who reached the site.

Weather Balloons, Threats, and a Rancher's Silence

Popp and Carey trace how the story became public and then officially vanished. Base commander Colonel William Blanchard had public information officer Walter Haut announce that the Air Force had recovered a flying saucer, a statement that raced around the world on the wire services amid a nationwide wave of flying-saucer sightings that summer. Carey says a Roswell bookstore owner told him the news spread across town in twenty minutes. Within a day, the story was reversed and the wreckage was reclassified as a weather balloon. Carey explains that rancher Mack Brazel, who first reported the debris, was held for about a week and pressured until he agreed to say it was only a balloon. Carey argues the reversal looks like a local blunder by Blanchard rather than a plan orchestrated from Washington, since announcing a saucer first would be an odd way to begin a cover-up. The story then went quiet for roughly thirty years until Marcel, dying of emphysema, finally spoke to civilian investigator Stanton Friedman.

Ninety Officers and a Hangar at Wright-Patterson

Carey describes what became of the wreckage and the surviving creature: most debris went to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, some to Los Alamos and Lockheed, while the four dead bodies were sent on ahead. He says the living being was kept at Roswell for months before turning up, in the spring of 1948, behind a two-way mirror shown to about ninety Air War College officers visiting from Maxwell Air Force Base. Citing the family of Marine pilot Marion Mac Magruder, Carey says the officers were first shown wreckage on rolling tables, including an indestructible memory metal that unfurled itself back into shape, before viewing the creature, which Magruder later told his son he felt an immediate emotional connection to, sensing its human qualities more than its alien ones. Carey says a colonel's deathbed confession placed the bodies at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, where he believes they remain today, while recovered wreckage is now studied by government contractors like the Battelle Memorial Institute.

Cover-Ups, Tic Tacs, and Old Sci-Fi Favorites

The conversation widens into why governments still hesitate to confirm contact, with Carey arguing that Cold War fears of Soviet spies first drove the secrecy, noting that a Stalin-ordered inquiry found only that the crash was not a Soviet or American project. Both agree modern skepticism, particularly from the government's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, functions much like the old Project Blue Book, dismissing witnesses despite thousands of credible sightings, including Navy pilots' encounters with an unexplained Tic Tac craft and the widely aired USS Nimitz videos. Carey cites Carl Sagan's estimate of a million advanced civilizations in the Milky Way alone as reason enough to expect visitors, and says politicians privately treat the subject as career poison. Popp and Carey swap favorite alien films, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thing from Another World, before Carey explains his old Roswell research website was seized by a Chinese company and directs listeners to reach him by email or search his name online, as Popp thanks him warmly and closes the show.

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Dr. Neal Barnard and Catherine Lanigan, The Power Foods Diet and a Lifetime of Angel Encounters

Mary Jane Popp spends the hour on two very different searches for a better life: weight-loss science with Dr. Neal Barnard, author of The Power Foods Diet, and a lifelong string of angelic encounters recounted by author Catherine Lanigan.

Setting Up The Hour

An announcer opens the broadcast with Popp Talk's usual promise of new dimensions and possibilities before handing things to host Mary Jane Popp. Popp welcomes listeners back and asks how many of them have ever been on a diet, joking that anyone who says never is telling a fib. She frames the segment around what she calls an obese society and promises a solution from one of the most renowned doctors in nutrition and health. She also teases the back half of the show, telling listeners a guest who has experienced angels throughout her life will explain whether angels were once human or are an entirely different kind of being. After a music break featuring The Hues Corporation's Rock the Boat, Popp introduces Dr. Neal Barnard, calling him a leader in evidence-based nutrition science whose team studies which foods are both healthy and good tasting.

Rethinking Diets With Power Foods

Barnard tells Popp that most diets fail because they rely on deprivation, cutting calories or banning entire food groups until people give up and lose confidence. He credits Harvard researchers who followed more than 100,000 people and found, in a report published in 2015, that certain foods actually cause weight loss the more a person eats them, because they curb appetite, block calorie absorption, or speed metabolism back toward youthful levels. His first example is berries: blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries contain anthocyanins, the pigment that colors them, which appears to boost metabolism. He cites a British study of nearly three thousand identical twins scanned for body fat, in which the twin who ate more anthocyanins consistently carried less abdominal and total fat than her genetically identical sister. Barnard also praises cinnamon, ginger, and hot peppers for their metabolic effects, describing a cinnamon-blueberry syrup he pours over French toast as an example of turning an ordinary breakfast into what he calls a power food.

Fast Food, Fiber, And Metabolism

The conversation turns to real-world eating: Barnard says a fast-food meal can still be a good choice if a customer picks a bean burrito over a cheese-topped beef taco, since beans supply fiber that naturally triggers the appetite-suppressing hormone GLP-1, the same hormone mimicked by drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. He singles out cheese, at roughly seventy percent fat with no fiber, as a bigger culprit than carbohydrate, and calls foods like chicken among the most heavily processed of all once factory farming is considered. Citing a Tufts University study, he explains that fiber in whole-grain bread acts like tiny sponges that carry unabsorbed calories out of the body. Barnard says his research studies hold exercise constant so results reflect diet alone, meaning even people who cannot exercise can lose weight through food choices. He shares recipes from The Power Foods Diet, including a triple-berry sorbet and fruit popsicles, and explains that aging slows metabolism mainly because dietary fat impairs mitochondria, a process his approach can reverse, before directing listeners to pcrm.org.

Catherine Lanigan And The Vanishing Stranger

After a music break featuring Bill Withers' Lean on Me, Popp introduces author Catherine Lanigan, who says she saw her first angel at age three and has since written forty-five books, including Angel Talks, Angel Timelines, and Angel Watch. Lanigan tells the story of a blizzard in La Porte, Indiana, when she was three years old and her pregnant mother, injured after a fall down the stairs, sent her out alone through a whiteout to reach a grocery store nearly a mile away. A man in an old car stopped, gently persuaded the frightened toddler to let him drive her the rest of the way, delivered her safely, and then vanished; the grocer and his staff said they had never seen him before and never saw him again. Lanigan says her mother always insisted the driver was an angel. Soon after, in the family's new house, young Catherine says a winged, glowing figure began visiting her bedroom regularly to keep her company.

Guardian Angels, Good And Bad

Lanigan explains that everyone is born with at least two guardian angels, and that more can arrive in times of need, describing angels she calls her own medical team who help friends facing illness. She says angels are a distinct species with different ranks, citing her father's twenty-two-minute near-death experience and biblical references to legions of battle-ready angels, and notes that seraphim and cherubim are said to have six wings. Some angels take human form temporarily, she says, often to protect people, especially women, from danger such as human trafficking, then vanish once the danger passes; she calls these vanishing angels. Asked how to tell a good angel from a bad one, Lanigan says a person can simply ask whether the being comes from the light, insisting a universal law compels a truthful answer, while dark or trickster spirits either cannot fake real light or lack the creativity to sustain the lie. She ties low vibration to fear and high vibration to acts of everyday kindness.

A New Earth And Closing Thoughts

The conversation turns to what Lanigan calls the New Earth, a shift she links to increasing solar flares that she says are raising the vibration of the planet's DNA and pushing humanity through an ascension. She describes a visitation from ten thousand angels before the pandemic who told her they were fighting a spiritual battle for possession of Earth, insisting the light has already won even as darkness makes a last grasp through fear and corruption. Lanigan says listeners can strengthen the shift through prayer, visualizing light spreading everywhere, and small kindnesses like a smile to a stranger, referencing research inspired by the film Pay It Forward that found smiling raises both parties' energy. She tells Popp that talking to angels works even without obvious answers, since angels reply through opportunities and paths already opening, including Popp's own radio show. Lanigan directs listeners to catherinelanigan.com and her book Angel Timelines before Popp closes the show promising to have her back and signing off with her usual reminder to laugh often and love deeply.

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Channeling Universal Guidance and the Journey From Ordinary to Extraordinary with Jill Amy Sager and Pattie Dale Tye

Mary Jane Popp welcomes tarot reader and channeler Jill Amy Sager to talk about receiving guidance from the universe, then sits down with executive-turned-author Pattie Dale Tye to explore how passion, purpose, and confidence can turn an ordinary career into an extraordinary one.

Jill Amy Sager Opens Up About Her Childhood

Mary Jane Popp opens the show promising two conversations: one on tapping into universal wisdom and one on turning an ordinary life into an extraordinary one. She introduces her first guest, tarot reader, channeler, and author Jill Amy Sager, describing her as someone whose radio frequency to the universe is always on. Sager explains that she was born in the 1960s with one leg shorter than the other, and that childhood surgeries meant to correct the condition instead left her more disabled. She recalls attending special classes in an era before mainstreaming, enduring visible bullying, and receiving little emotional support from her parents. Sager says that being left to cope on her own, without being babied, toughened her and built a resilience she still relies on in her sixties. Popp compares the story to her own childhood insecurities and wonders aloud whether social media makes today's pressures on children even harder to bear than what earlier generations faced.

A Radio Frequency From the Universe

Sager describes how her intuitive abilities developed after she left the Bronx for California in the 1970s, drawn by what she calls a freer, more open-minded culture. A chance tarot reading introduced her to cards that, she says, seemed to know her, and she soon began reading for herself and then for others. About a decade later she began hearing a distinct, loving voice she knew was not her own thoughts, which she came to call her guidance. She likens the experience to tuning into a radio frequency that anyone might access, though she admits she cannot rationally explain what it is or where it comes from. Popp asks what Sager channels, and Sager says she deliberately avoids the word psychic because it implies fortune telling, preferring guidance because it conveys help rather than prediction. She describes the messages as pure, expansive love that she has never wanted to define too narrowly, worried that naming it would box it in or invite people to distort its meaning.

A Live Reading On Air

Popp asks Sager to demonstrate, and Sager pulls out her tarot deck to give her an impromptu reading live on the show. Looking at the Empress card, Sager tells Popp that she senses someone currently dreaming and wishing for more, someone weighing a new pursuit that must align with who she really is. She describes the idea as still percolating rather than acted upon, and notes that help surrounds Popp already, including encouragement to pay closer attention to her physical health. When Popp, who is in her seventies, asks whether she will be healthy enough to see a new project through, Sager declines to predict specifics but says the potential is clearly there and that things can change faster than expected. The two then discuss how metaphysics functions as an umbrella term for tarot, oracle cards, and mediumship, distinct from the broader category of new-age practices, and Sager frames her work as pointing toward a more tangible, structured way of understanding the unseen.

The Book Guidance From the Universe

Sager explains that her book grew out of years of automatic writing, messages on themes like fear, awareness, suffering, loss, money, and time that she originally jotted in a spiral notebook before transcribing them. She says the universe eventually pushed her to share them publicly, and only while transcribing did she decide to add her own personal stories about learning to accept herself and her disability, along with reflection questions at the end of each chapter. Although she expected readers to connect most with the guidance messages themselves, she says she has been surprised by how strongly people respond instead to her personal stories, telling her the passages help them feel less like victims and more hopeful about their own struggles. Popp closes the segment by directing listeners to Sager's website, JillAmySager.com, and noting that Guidance From The Universe, published through Simon & Schuster, is available at libraries and independent bookstores everywhere. The two exchange warm thanks before Popp teases the show's second half.

Pattie Dale Tye On Passion And Purpose

After a musical interlude, Popp introduces her second guest, Pattie Dale Tye, a veteran of healthcare and insurance leadership and author of Ordinary To Extraordinary, a book about achieving career success through passion, purpose, and preparation. Tye argues that passion follows discovering one's innate aptitudes, the things a person does well without trying, and then repeating and refining that skill until it becomes a source of pride. She recommends resources such as Gallup's StrengthsFinder, Richard Bolles's What Color Is Your Parachute, and formal aptitude testing through the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, noting that innate aptitudes are largely set by age eighteen. Tye distinguishes confident humility from bragging, describing her father's advice to let others praise her rather than boasting herself, a line Popp says her own father gave her too. The conversation turns to purpose, which Tye says starts as simple survival early in a career, citing Malcolm Gladwell's idea that mastery takes roughly ten thousand hours, and deepens over time as strengths come to the forefront.

Balance, Failure, And Fear Of AI

Tye and Popp discuss the freedom to fail, with Tye recalling a mentor who told her there was nothing she could mess up that he could not fix, and both agree that fear causes people to stagnate rather than grow. They lament how heavily social media's airbrushed images feed imposter syndrome in young people, with Tye citing her friend Peter Lamas, a Hollywood hair and makeup artist, who says even runway models look unrecognizable without styling. Tye describes instituting a digital detox rule at Humana that stopped weekend emailing, which she says made her more productive during the week. The pair then debate artificial intelligence, agreeing it can help with health research but worrying about people treating chatbots and robotic pets as substitutes for real relationships, referencing the film WALL-E as a warning. Tye closes by praising deliberate networking, recalling how George and Barbara Bush reportedly reached out to contacts each day at breakfast, before describing her own spare-time hobby of growing seedlings and making pepper jelly, and pointing listeners to her book and website, pattiedaletye.com.

Lorraine Bosse-Smith and Dev Nag, Expectations, Responsibility, and the Human Future in an AI World

Expectations Versus Meaningful Goals

Mary Jane Popp begins the episode by asking listeners to examine what they expect from life and whether those expectations are realistic. Guest Lorraine Bosse-Smith distinguishes between dreaming and setting a genuine goal, arguing that a meaningful goal requires commitment, intention, action, time, and energy. She explains that creative people can generate far more ideas than they can realistically pursue and describes saving ideas, letting them “simmer,” and revisiting them later to decide which ones are worth pursuing. Lorraine also argues that expectations can create frustration in relationships when people assume others should behave according to their own family norms or standards. Her image of expecting “turtles to fly” illustrates the disappointment that can come from demanding behavior another person may simply be unable or unwilling to provide.

Knowing When to Adjust or Let Go

The conversation moves into evaluating goals and recognizing when a goal no longer fits the person pursuing it. Lorraine encourages people to look back at what they intended to accomplish and ask why particular goals did or did not happen without automatically turning that reflection into self-criticism. She describes her own experience of feeling obligated to become a musician because she came from a musical family, despite discovering that the time required to pursue music conflicted with her love of an active outdoor life. The lesson, she says, was learning that it was acceptable to be herself rather than fulfill someone else’s model of who she should be. Lorraine suggests giving a new endeavor sustained effort before reassessing it and returning to the underlying “why.” If the reason remains compelling, a person can change strategies; if the goal itself no longer matters, letting it go can be the healthier choice.

Responsibility, Apologies, and Personal Growth

Mary Jane and Lorraine then explore responsibility and the tendency to blame other people when outcomes go badly. Lorraine says true responsibility involves owning one’s decisions even when other people influenced them, and she uses a past unhealthy relationship as an example of realizing that she had chosen both to enter and remain in the situation. She connects that recognition to addressing her own self-esteem rather than continuing to place all blame outside herself. Both women agree that mistakes can become valuable learning experiences when people admit them and change their behavior, while repeatedly making the same mistake without learning creates a destructive pattern. They also discuss sincere apologies, contrasting genuine accountability with statements such as “I’m sorry you took it wrong.” Lorraine emphasizes that relationships involve people raised with different norms, so repairing hurt requires acknowledging the impact of one’s behavior even when the original intent was different.

Kindness, Perspective, and Human Connection

The first interview broadens into a discussion of social division, social-media algorithms, manners, and everyday kindness. Lorraine argues that algorithms repeatedly showing people information that confirms their existing beliefs can strengthen the conviction that one side is always right and everyone else is wrong. She and Mary Jane contrast that with older forms of journalism that presented multiple viewpoints and allowed readers to reach their own conclusions. They describe small behaviors—opening a door, saying please and thank you, smiling at strangers, allowing other drivers to merge, greeting people, and sharing holiday treats—as ways individuals can improve the social environment around them. Lorraine recalls how friendly people seemed while she was on vacation and asks why that same welcoming mindset cannot be brought back into local communities. The segment closes with concern that technology and artificial intelligence could further reduce personal contact if people stop deliberately nurturing relationships.

AI in Healthcare: Potential and Personalization

The second half introduces Dev Nag for a discussion of artificial intelligence, beginning with healthcare. Dev describes AI as capable of processing much larger bodies of information than an individual physician could review, potentially helping with diagnosis, radiology, genetics, personalized medicine, and assessment of medication risks. Mary Jane sees the advantage of AI comparing far more medical information than a person can process, but she repeatedly emphasizes the importance of emotion, empathy, and human bedside manner. Dev agrees that healthcare illustrates why AI should often support rather than replace people, especially when patients are receiving difficult news or weighing serious choices. They discuss the possibility that AI could help narrow long lists of medication side effects to risks that are more relevant to a particular individual. Throughout the conversation, both speakers return to the idea that the strongest future may combine AI’s data-processing abilities with human judgment, compassion, and guidance.

Deepfakes, Privacy, Creativity, and Human Autonomy

The final discussion addresses what Mary Jane and Dev see as AI’s broader social risks and opportunities. Dev identifies misinformation and deepfakes as immediate concerns, describing scams in which synthetic video or audio can imitate trusted people and make fraud easier. They also discuss whether AI actually thinks, how algorithmic systems such as chess programs differ from human reasoning, the possibility of people treating AI as sentient regardless of whether it truly is, and the erosion of online privacy as faces and writing samples become easier to identify. Education becomes another area where they favor balance: AI could extend tutoring and access, but Mary Jane objects to allowing it to replace meaningful human response from teachers. They also discuss employment transitions, self-driving transportation, creativity, young people’s technical skills, smart appliances, and the danger of allowing technology to become an “oracle or manager.” The episode closes with a shared preference for AI as a tool that expands human capability and imagination without replacing autonomy, relationships, questioning, or the human touch.

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Kryste Andrews and Dr David Daniels, Past-Life Mysteries, Alien Encounters, and the Psychology of Looking Your Best

Understanding Hypnosis

The program opens with host Mary Jane Popp asking whether hypnosis can reveal past lives and other unusual experiences. Hypnotherapist Kryste Andrews describes hypnosis as a theta state between ordinary wakefulness and sleep, reached through an induction. She says this state allows access to the subconscious and what she calls the higher self. Andrews acknowledges that some people resist hypnosis because they remain strongly attached to analytical, everyday awareness. Popp relates this idea to her own difficulty relinquishing control, including unsuccessful attempts to become intoxicated or hypnotized. Andrews suggests that a sufficiently urgent unanswered question might help Popp surrender that control.

Robert’s Search for Answers

Robert says he sought hypnotherapy after experiencing unexplained events, including waking in his locked backyard at 3:00 a.m., finding scratches on his body, and having vivid experiences he did not regard as dreams. He describes a childhood memory in which a being he later understood as a gray entered through a sliding door and communicated telepathically. Although his parents interpreted the event as an evil spirit, Robert says he never believed he had imagined it. He found Andrews through a referral and initially doubted she could hypnotize him, but he says he entered hypnosis quickly and remained under for approximately 80 minutes. The sessions reassured him that he was not losing his mind. Andrews presents his account as a distinctive case within her hypnotherapy practice.

Claims of Grays, Regression, and Family Experiences

Andrews and Robert say that, during hypnosis, a gray they named Fred began communicating through Robert. Over a year of sessions, Robert came to believe that he had once lived as a gray and that his present life is his first human incarnation. Andrews says the sessions led her to believe humans contain some alien DNA and that extraterrestrials influenced early human development. They also report that members of Robert’s family later described similar experiences without first receiving detailed information from him. The speakers further claim that Robert’s mother was inseminated aboard a spacecraft and that smaller beings called scientists directed the operation. These statements are presented in the transcript as the participants’ interpretations of their experiences, not as independently established facts.

Health, Religion, and the Planned Book

Robert reports undergoing 34 surgeries and describes a neck condition involving enlarged lymph nodes and nodules that allegedly disappeared before scheduled imaging. He says a figure speaking through hypnosis claimed responsibility for both causing and correcting the condition. The conversation then turns to religion, energy, death, and reincarnation. Robert and Andrews say Fred described religion as a structure created for human community and guidance, while Popp compares the enduring nature of energy with the religious concept of an eternal divine presence. Andrews says Robert believes he will return to being a gray after his human life. The guests close by discussing Andrews’s book Discovery and a planned work, 31 Conversations with an Alien, which may become an audiobook incorporating original session recordings.

Confidence, Aging, and Noninvasive Options

The second interview features plastic surgeon Dr. David Daniels, who says external procedures alone cannot create happiness and that confidence must begin internally. He discusses sunscreen, nutrition, exercise, mineral intake, and structural changes associated with aging. Daniels presents fillers as tools for restoring lost support rather than merely adding volume. He also describes Botox as potentially useful for softening expressions that other people perceive as angry, thereby changing social feedback. Noninvasive technologies discussed include EMFACE for facial muscles and brow position, EMSCULPT NEO for muscle strengthening, and EMSELLA for stress incontinence. Several performance figures and health claims in this portion are statements made by Daniels and were not verified outside the transcript.

Training, Fillers, and Patient Safety

Daniels emphasizes the difference between a formally trained plastic surgeon and someone using the broader label “cosmetic surgeon.” He warns against selecting injectors through discount offers, parties, or price alone, because product choice and anatomical knowledge affect safety and results. The discussion covers JUVÉDERM, Restylane, Allergan products, hyaluronic-acid fillers, facial fat transfer, and the ability to dissolve certain fillers if complications occur. Daniels says he avoids facial fat transfer because misplaced or excessive fat can be difficult to remove. Popp and Daniels agree that natural-looking improvement should help a person appear rested rather than dramatically altered. The source ends while Daniels is explaining a jaw-augmentation technique intended to restore structural support for two to four years.

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Astrology, Energy Healing, 5G Concerns, and Navigating a Changing World

Mary Jane Popp welcomes astrologer Constance Stellas and energy healer Beth Bauer to Popp Talk for conversations about astrology, Pluto’s return, eclipses, political and global uncertainty, personal choice, self-care, energy fields, distance healing, EMF and 5G concerns, technology, artificial intelligence, and the search for practical ways to remain aligned during turbulent times.

Guest Spotlight: Constance Stellas

Constance Stellas is introduced as an astrologer and author with more than twenty years of experience. She explains astrology as an ancient system that developed through observation of stars, planets, seasons, navigation, and agriculture before evolving into the interpretation of personal birth charts. She says a full astrological chart draws upon a person’s birth date, year, location, and time.

Astrology, History, and the United States

Mary Jane asks whether a nation can have a birth chart, and Constance applies that idea to the United States. She discusses the country’s Pluto return, interpreting Pluto as connected with power, hidden corruption, transformation, and the exposure of social wounds. She describes the present period as difficult but potentially cleansing, with political, organizational, and cultural divisions being brought to the surface. These are Constance’s astrological interpretations rather than independently verified predictions.

Eclipses, Conflict, and Avoiding Fear-Based Astrology

The discussion turns to the 2017 and 2024 eclipses and the idea that their paths formed an X across the United States. Constance describes this as a potentially tense and energizing pattern, but cautions against treating astrology as a source of inevitable catastrophe. She also connects Pluto’s position with war and geopolitical tension involving Ukraine, Israel, Hamas, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. At the same time, she argues that astrology should help people understand possibilities and choices rather than frighten them into paralysis.

Political Predictions, Choice, and Personal Responsibility

Mary Jane asks about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the 2024 election. Constance says she had previously predicted that Trump would not win, though she does not claim to know how or why. The conversation also references Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s consultation with astrologer Joan Quigley. Constance emphasizes that astrology does not mean everything is fixed; people still have choices and can express the strengths or weaknesses associated with their astrological patterns.

Self-Care, Creativity, and Astrology During Chaos

Constance promotes her twelve-book Self-Care For... series, with one volume for each zodiac sign, and discusses using astrology to support physical, mental, spiritual, and recreational well-being. She also reflects on changes in society, artificial intelligence, produced creativity, and the loss of what older generations considered normal. She says astrology can connect people with myth, symbolism, personal challenges, and constructive ways to respond during periods of personal and global chaos.

Guest Spotlight: Beth Bauer

After a public-service announcement break, Mary Jane introduces Beth Bauer as an energy healer and author of Fields of Energy. Beth says she has been able to see and feel energy fields around people since she was four years old. In her description, areas of energetic congestion appear visually different, and she believes that correcting these patterns can support physical healing. These claims are presented as Beth’s personal experience and healing framework, not as established medical science.

Distance Healing and Energetic Connection

Beth says she does not need to be physically present with someone, have a photograph, or know the person’s location in order to perform what she calls distance healing. She describes identifying the intended person through the relationship of the person requesting help and recounts examples in which clients reported improvement. She also says her children share similar abilities, although she did not formally teach them.

5G, Wi-Fi, EMF, and Technology Concerns

A large portion of Beth’s interview concerns her belief that 5G, Wi-Fi, cellular devices, routers, smart appliances, and electromagnetic fields can negatively affect health and the body’s energy field. She says she became severely sensitive to 5G and eventually moved to a more remote location. She recommends reducing Wi-Fi exposure, hardwiring internet connections, keeping devices away from the body, and using products she believes offer protection. These medical, technical, and product-effectiveness claims are speaker claims and should not be presented as verified scientific or medical conclusions without independent evidence.

Healing Claims, Genetic Conditions, and Serious Illness

Beth makes extensive claims about helping thousands of people, distance healing, cancer, traumatic injuries, genetic conditions, Down syndrome, spina bifida, and unborn children. She also says a woman wrote a book about recovering from cancer through Beth’s distance-healing work without chemotherapy or radiation. They should be clearly attributed to Beth and should not be used as medical advice or as a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

Artificial Intelligence, Cell Phones, and Younger Generations

Beth describes artificial intelligence as dangerous and says both she and her husband avoid using it. She also discusses cell-phone radiation, comparing different phones through what she says she can physically feel, and recommends researching radiation output before purchasing devices. The episode ends abruptly while she and Mary Jane are discussing children and younger generations who have grown up immersed in wireless technology and may never have experienced life without it.

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9 Pillars of Resilience, Beads of Light, Change, Stress, Self-Discovery and Healing

Mary Jane Popp explores personal well-being with Dr. Stephen Sideroff and Enrica Feruzzi, moving from chronic stress, resilience, aging, mindset, and the nine pillars of resilience to post-pandemic self-discovery, mindfulness, energy practices, dreamwork, healing, and the search for one’s authentic inner voice.

Guest Spotlight: Dr. Stephen Sideroff and Enrica Feruzzi

This episode of Popp Talk, broadcast on August 8, 2026, features host Mary Jane Popp in conversation with two guests: Dr. Stephen Sideroff and Enrica Feruzzi. Dr. Sideroff is the first guest in a segment on stress and resilience, and Enrica Feruzzi as the second guest in a segment on self-discovery, healing, and her book Beads of Light: Story of Alignment and Embracing Change in a Post-Pandemic World.

Mary Jane Popp Opens With Stress, Change, and Possibility

Mary Jane Popp opens the show by framing the hour around personal well-being, stress, and the willingness to embrace change. She asks listeners whether they are stressed out, whether they know what to do about it, and whether they are open to possibilities that could change their lives. The introduction sets up the episode as a practical and exploratory conversation about stress, health, resilience, self-discovery, and the tools people may use to move forward rather than remain stuck.

Dr. Stephen Sideroff Defines Stress and Chronic Stress

In the first segment, Dr. Stephen Sideroff defines stress as anything that causes people to make adjustments. He explains that stress activates the body to handle danger or threat, but the key is being able to turn off the stress response afterward so the body can recover. The problem, he says, is that modern life often presents one stressor after another, leaving people continually activated. That ongoing activation becomes chronic stress, which is where he says many physical and emotional problems begin.

Interpretation, Childhood Lessons, and the Resilience Response

Dr. Sideroff explains that stress is not simply caused by outside events, but by the way people interpret those events. He gives the example of someone passing by with a disgruntled expression: one person may assume the other person is angry with them and become stressed, while another may assume the person is having a bad day and move on. He also connects stress patterns to childhood, saying people who grew up with more danger may continue expecting danger as adults. Resilience, in his view, involves learning from the present rather than automatically reacting from old childhood lessons.

The Nine Pillars of Resilience

Mary Jane asks Dr. Sideroff to walk through his nine pillars of resilience. He names the relationship with self, relationship with others, relationship with something greater, physical balance and mastery, mental balance and mastery, emotional balance and mastery, presence, flexibility, and power. He describes the first pillar, relationship with self, as especially important because many people are harsh, judgmental, or unforgiving toward themselves. He emphasizes self-talk, healthy relationships, boundaries, purpose, nervous-system balance, positive mindset, emotional processing, awareness, adaptability, courage, persistence, and goal-directed behavior as parts of resilience.

Growth Mindset, Positive Perspective, and Slowing the Wear on the Body

Dr. Sideroff also discusses the relationship between stress, aging, and the body. He says stress throws the nervous system out of balance and compares the body to a car that wears out faster when it is out of tune. He argues that nurture is especially important in how people handle stress, while also saying stress can influence how genetic predispositions are expressed. His practical emphasis is on a growth mindset: noticing patterns that do not serve you, holding the intention to change them, repeatedly redirecting old thinking, and building a more positive baseline without ignoring real problems.

Enrica Feruzzi on Grief, Corporate Life, and the Search for Self

The second segment introduces Enrica Feruzzi, whose story centers on self-discovery, healing, and alignment after years in the corporate hospitality world. She describes having outward success through career, title, salary, home, and stability, while inwardly feeling restless and disconnected from something deeper. The illness and death of her mother became a catalyst that pushed her to seek help for anxiety, stress, grief, and sleeplessness. Enrica says this search opened the doorway to mindfulness, energy medicine, spiritual practices, Qigong, Tai Chi, and other forms of energy cultivation that helped her reconnect with herself and her body.

Mindfulness, Energy Practices, Dreamwork, and the Inner Voice

Enrica explains Qigong and Tai Chi as East Asian movement-based practices, comparing them to yoga as dynamic meditations that use the body to help balance the mind and energy system. She describes a holistic view of mind, body, and spirit, saying symptoms are not isolated events but ripple effects of many connected factors. The conversation also turns to technology, news consumption, personal discernment, dreamwork, and the difficulty of calming the “monkey mind” before sleep. Enrica encourages writing down dreams, noticing symbols, practicing breath and visualization, and learning to recognize one’s own inner voice rather than living only from outside information, old stories, inherited fear, or constant mental chatter.

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Sex Talk, Soul Purpose, and the Beliefs That Hold Us Back

Mary Jane Popp speaks with Dr. Steven Furlich about how biological sex may influence communication across life stages, then welcomes Vincent Genna for a spiritual conversation about consciousness, the unconscious mind, inner-child beliefs, manifestation, and remembering who we really are.

Guest Spotlight: Dr. Steven Furlich

Dr. Steven Furlich, author of Sex Talk, joins Mary Jane Popp to discuss how he believes biological sex influences gender communication differences throughout life. Drawing from his research and book, he explains distinctions between biological sex and gender expression, then explores topics such as brain structure, hormones, nonverbal communication, spatial ability, relationship conflict, menopause, aging, and why understanding a partner’s perspective can help reduce frustration.

Guest Spotlight: Vincent Genna

Vincent Genna, described in the episode as a psychic therapist, spiritual teacher, medium, author, and host of The Genna Effect, joins the second half of the program to discuss his book The Secret That’s Holding You Back. His conversation focuses on consciousness, the subconscious and unconscious mind, spiritual origins, energy, inner-child beliefs, manifestation, self-worth, and the process of bringing hidden beliefs to the surface so they can be healed and changed.

Biology, Gender Communication, and Relationship Differences

Mary Jane begins the episode with Dr. Furlich and asks him to define gender communication and why men and women may communicate differently. Dr. Furlich distinguishes biological sex from gender, describing biological sex as connected to chromosomes, sex hormones, and brain structures, while gender is connected to expression, social behavior, dress, perception, and communication. He argues that biological sex strongly influences how people perceive, understand, and communicate, while also acknowledging that lifestyle, diet, exercise, and experiences can shift certain biological factors to some degree.

Nonverbal Understanding, Spatial Ability, and the “Man Trance”

Dr. Furlich explains that, in his view, females tend to be stronger at nonverbal understanding and reading emotional or social cues, while males tend to show strengths in spatial ability, direction, motion, object tracking, and hand-eye coordination. He also introduces what he calls the “man trance,” describing it as a male ability to shut off the rest of the world and rest more easily. Mary Jane connects this to long-standing relationship advice about not interrupting a man when he is mentally in his “cave,” while Dr. Furlich says partners need to understand how differently the same conversation may be processed.

Listening, Problem-Solving, and Marriage Across Life Stages

The conversation moves into relationship dynamics, including the common pattern of women wanting to talk through emotions while men may respond by trying to solve the problem. Dr. Furlich connects this to literal processing, emotional bonding, oxytocin, mirror neurons, and differences he says exist in brain connectivity. Mary Jane shares examples from her nearly 53-year marriage, explaining how she and her husband learned when she needed to vent and when he needed space. Together, they frame healthier relationships as a matter of empathy, timing, open communication, accommodation, and respecting each person’s individuality rather than expecting two people to “become one” in every way.

Menopause, Aging, Hormones, and Changing Relationships

Mary Jane and Dr. Furlich also discuss how relationships change across the life stages. Dr. Furlich says menopause, estrogen changes, cognitive shifts, mood changes, muscle loss, bone density, sexual issues, and changing energy can all influence a woman’s experience and therefore the relationship. He also discusses male aging, declining testosterone, and possible attempts to replace feelings of power, status, or vitality through things such as cars or other symbols. Mary Jane shares how she talked openly with her husband during menopause so he would understand that mood swings or emotional changes were not necessarily caused by him.

Consciousness, Energy, and the Superconscious Search

In the second half, Mary Jane welcomes Vincent Genna and asks him to explain consciousness, the conscious mind, subconscious mind, unconscious mind, and superconscious ideas. Vincent begins with Freud’s model, describing the conscious mind as awareness, the subconscious as automatic bodily and behavioral processes, and the unconscious as the place where memories, intuition, inner knowing, and deeper beliefs reside. The conversation quickly expands into spiritual territory, as Vincent says the mind can carry information from other lifetimes, that people came from a spiritual realm before the physical realm, and that humans are energy beings who take form.

The Secret Belief Beneath Manifestation

Vincent says the “secret” holding people back is that they do not truly believe what they think they believe. He argues that many people consciously affirm they are lovable, worthy, smart, and deserving, while unconsciously holding childhood beliefs of “I’m not good enough,” “I’m not lovable,” or “I’m not worthy.” He explains that children often blame themselves for painful circumstances, including divorce, abuse, or family conflict, and those beliefs can remain hidden into adulthood. In Vincent’s view, manifestation comes from the unconscious mind, so unhealed inner-child beliefs can block dreams even when the conscious mind is using affirmations or spiritual practices.

Healing the Inner Child and Remembering Who We Are

Vincent teaches that the path forward is to bring hidden beliefs to the surface, recognize the wounded inner child, and change the beliefs that were formed for survival. He says people are ultimately searching for who they really are, but repeated incarnation, pain, and unconscious self-limitation can cause people to forget their spiritual identity and act from wounded childlike patterns. He encourages listeners to attend to the child within rather than reject it, and points them to his book and website for more of his work. Mary Jane closes by thanking both guests, reminding listeners where to find Popp Talk, and ending with her weekly reflection: “Life is the first gift. Love is the second and understanding the third,” followed by “Live simply, laugh often, love deeply.”

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High Strangeness, Hidden Truths, and the Healing Power of Flaxseed

Mary Jane Popp explores high strangeness, UFO secrecy, time travel, and paranormal possibility with Matt Vaughn, then turns to Dr. Susan Smith Jones for practical guidance on flaxseed, nutrition, and balanced living.

Guest Spotlight: Matt Vaughn

Matt Vaughn is the author of My Cosmic Trigger: High Strangeness, in Theory and Practice, a book exploring paranormal phenomena, cosmic mysteries, time travel, alien encounters, Bigfoot, and other unusual realities. In this conversation, he brings a researcher’s curiosity and a psychotherapist’s perspective to the question of why people resist strange possibilities, arguing that high strangeness often looks more like science fiction than conventional reality.

Guest Spotlight: Dr. Susan Smith Jones

Dr. Susan Smith Jones returns to Popp Talk to discuss flaxseed as a daily superfood for hormone balance, cardiovascular support, digestion, mental well-being, weight control, and overall health. Drawing from decades of teaching holistic health, anti-aging, nutrition, and balanced living, she explains why freshly ground flaxseed may be more beneficial than whole seeds or oil alone.

A Variety Show of Strangeness, Health, and Hidden Possibilities

In this episode of Popp Talk, host Mary Jane Popp opens with a preview of a wide-ranging program covering mind control, identity, faith healing, hidden truths, and healthy living. The first major segment features Matt Vaughn, whose work investigates what Mary Jane calls “high strangeness” across paranormal and unexplained phenomena. Matt explains that his interest began in childhood, when he became fascinated by strange subjects, mysteries, and fringe research, eventually leading him to write My Cosmic Trigger: High Strangeness, in Theory and Practice.

Time Travel, Cosmic War, and Positive Timeline Magic

Mary Jane and Matt discuss time travel, multiple dimensions, alien encounters, and the possibility that reality may be stranger than people are willing to admit. Matt introduces the idea of timeline magic, saying his research points toward a “war in heaven” involving ultra-terrestrial factions and a struggle over both earthly power spots and timelines. He emphasizes that, in his view, the future is not fixed, which is why he encourages people to embrace a positive timeline and focus on an optimal future.

Energy Vortexes, Sacred Places, and the Resistance to Strange Truths

The conversation moves into New Age energy vortexes and sacred spaces, including Sedona, Mount Shasta, Asheville, Stonehenge, the Bermuda Triangle, and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Matt compares the feeling of Hagia Sophia to standing near a waterfall, while Mary Jane reflects on how many people dismiss experiences they cannot see, touch, or explain. Matt connects that resistance to psychology, saying the human psyche often rejects truths that create stress, discomfort, or cognitive dissonance. He argues that accepting unusual realities may be necessary for genuine spiritual evolution.

UFOs, Free Energy, and Occam’s Rabbit Hole

Mary Jane and Matt then turn to UFOs, alien encounters, Roswell, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, reverse engineering, and claims about government secrecy. Matt references Dr. Steven Greer’s view that UFO secrecy may be connected to free energy and the disruption such technology could cause to the economy. He also introduces his phrase “Occam’s rabbit hole,” arguing that when countless witnesses, military stories, personal accounts, and alleged technology reports are considered together, the simplest explanation may not be denial, but the possibility that something extraordinary is real.

Sponsor Message and Public Service Segment

After Matt’s interview, the program includes a sponsor message for ACP Mechanical, with Mary Jane describing the company’s heating and cooling services and providing contact information. A public service announcement follows, honoring victims and survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting through the One Pulse Foundation and encouraging allies of the LGBTQ community to speak out for acceptance. The PSA directs listeners to LoveHasNoLabels.com and frames the message around love, unity, and support.

Flaxseed as a Daily Superfood

The second major interview features Dr. Susan Smith Jones, who explains why she believes flaxseed deserves a regular place in the daily diet. She says flaxseed is not a new food, noting its ancient use, and then outlines benefits connected to lignans, hormone regulation, omega-3s, fiber, magnesium, thiamine, digestive health, blood pressure support, mood, fullness, weight control, and cancer-risk-related research. She repeatedly emphasizes that flaxseeds should be ground fresh or blended into smoothies because whole seeds may pass through the body undigested.

Practical Nutrition, Recipes, and Healthy Living Resources

Dr. Jones gives practical advice on buying raw flaxseed, grinding it in a dedicated grinder, refrigerating the fresh meal, using it in smoothies, oatmeal, cereal, salads, casseroles, beans, and even mixing it with water. She also discusses her website, blog, sweet potato and flaxseed smoothie recipe, newsletter, daily affirmations, and books including A Hug in a Mug and Uplifted. Mary Jane closes by thanking Dr. Jones for sharing health information and previews upcoming discussion topics, including mind control and what happens when someone discovers their whole life may have been built on a lie.

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Biotech Breakthroughs, Hidden Pain, and the Truth We Struggle to Tell

Guests, Tim Harris and Michelle May

A Potpourri of Health, Science, and Self-Understanding

In this episode of Popp Talk, host Mary Jane Popp introduces a wide-ranging “potpourri” show covering biotechnology, health, therapy, and the hidden struggles people sometimes carry beneath the surface. She begins by setting up an interview with Tim Harris, author of In Pursuit of Unicorns: A Journey Through 50 Years of Biotechnology, and later introduces Michelle May, psychotherapist and author of What I Couldn’t Tell My Therapist. The episode moves from the evolution of biotech and medical innovation to emotional repression, chronic pain, social media misinformation, and the importance of personal responsibility.

Tim Harris on Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Unicorns

Mary Jane’s first guest, Tim Harris, defines biotechnology as the combination of biology and technology, beginning with recombinant DNA and monoclonal antibodies. He explains that his book title uses the word “unicorns” because biotech companies can become billion-dollar enterprises, though some valuations may prove more mythical than real. Harris presents biotechnology not only as a scientific field but also as a business story shaped by companies, capital, invention, risk, and the long effort to turn scientific tools into useful products.

Recombinant DNA, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Gene Editing

Harris walks listeners through the development of recombinant DNA, explaining how scientists learned to combine pieces of DNA and use bacteria such as E. coli to produce important proteins like insulin and growth hormone. He also explains monoclonal antibodies as single antibodies made by cloned cells, first useful for diagnostics and later for therapies. The conversation then turns to gene editing, including CRISPR-Cas9 and its use in sickle cell disease, which Harris describes as life-changing for patients whose lives revolve around managing pain and disease.

Cancer, mRNA Vaccines, AI, and the Risks of Innovation

Mary Jane and Harris discuss why cancer remains difficult to treat, with Harris explaining CAR T-cell therapy, its success in certain leukemias and lymphomas, and the continuing challenge of solid tumors such as breast, prostate, and colon cancer. He also connects nanotechnology to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, describing lipid nanoparticles as the delivery system for messenger RNA. The conversation expands into new COVID strains, vaccine updates, artificial intelligence, risk assessment, and the limits of prediction in biology. Harris emphasizes that while AI can help analyze data and predict viral changes, drug discovery and development remain experimental sciences.

Michelle May’s Story of Chronic Pain and Repressed Emotion

The second major interview features Michelle May, who shares that she woke up in 2007 with a headache that lasted six years. Doctors eventually found a Chiari malformation, and after two brain surgeries, her head pain improved dramatically. Still, some headaches remained, and May says she later learned through intensive dynamic therapy that repressed emotions also contributed to her pain. She explains that anger, grief, guilt, and love can be pushed out of awareness when people grow up in environments where certain feelings do not feel safe, but those emotions may still remain in the body.

What People Cannot Tell Their Therapist

May explains that the title What I Couldn’t Tell My Therapist has two meanings: the painful family stories she feared would feel like betrayal, and the truths she had not yet admitted to herself. She describes how patients may minimize or filter their experiences, especially when they love the people who hurt them. Mary Jane presses her on how therapy helps uncover those hidden barriers, and May explains that she watches for avoidance patterns, such as looking away, intellectualizing, minimizing pain, or struggling to stay connected while discussing intimacy and emotion.

Pain, Anxiety, Opioids, Social Media, and Responsibility

The interview broadens into the overlap between physical pain and emotional pain, with May stressing that medical causes should always be ruled out first before exploring emotional processes. She distinguishes between feelings and actions, explaining that anger is a bodily experience while harmful behavior is a choice. The conversation also covers chronic pain, opioid dependence, the mind-body connection, social media misinformation, fact-checking, political and cultural falsehoods, and the difficulty people have admitting they were wrong. The episode closes with May encouraging people to find a therapist they trust, while Mary Jane emphasizes comfort, accountability, and the need to stop blaming others when personal responsibility is required.