Talk Jam Podcast

In this second Talk Jam Extra (and our second jam about Disney World--we can never get enough), Kelly and Susan talk about visiting Disney World, how the experience changes there based on whom you're with and when you go (holidays are GREAT there, Kelly says!), and some of our favorite moments there, including Disney pin trading (we both have stories about that, as well as Susan's plan to remain there permanently!)

Once again, this Talk Jam Extra appears with no intro or outro music, and NO COMMERCIALS! We hope you enjoy that part!

Quick trivia question: Which major Disney attraction has appeared in each of the FIVE Disney theme parks around the world--but in a different land in each park?

Answer: Haunted Mansion! It's in New Orleans Square in Disneyland, Liberty Square in Disney World, and different places in Disneyland Tokyo, Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Hong Kong!

Visit The Disney Food Blog for all kinds of information, updated daily, on Disney restaurants, openings and all other news; it's a great resource for Disney-philes, so sign up for their daily newsletter!

https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/

the disney food blog | food IS a theme parkYour source for Disney restaurants and food! We focus on Disney restaurant reviews, Disney snacks, food news, Disney Dining Plans, and more from Disney World, Disneyland, the Disney Cruise Line, and International Disney Parks!www.disneyfoodblog.com

As always, we welcome your questions, show ideas and suggestions for future shows. Email us at [email protected]!

Episode 18 of Season 2 is the second of a two-part episode on the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the first part, we retold the story of this tragic episode, ending with the trial and execution of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, a German carpenter living in the Bronx, who was accused of kidnapping and murdering the 20-month-old Lindbergh baby.

But was Hauptmann really guilty? Was justice served? And knowing what we know now, 90 years later, is it just barely possible SOMEONE ELSE--someone MUCH closer to the child--took the Lindbergh baby? Is it possible the perpetrator was actually... the most famous man on earth?

Join us for this riveting episode of TALK JAM, as we dissect THE CASE THAT WON'T GO AWAY... 

Reach out to Kelly or Susan at [email protected] with comments, questions or show ideas. We love hearing from you!

Visit Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's author website at: 

https://www.kellyfitzgeraldfowler.com/

Visit Susan Sloate's author website at:

https://susansloate.com

Episode 18 of TALK JAM is sponsored by OVER MY DEAD BODY, the great Biblical thriller by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler; check it out here:

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Dead-Body-Supernatural-Historical-ebook/dp/B07GDTQBGM/

THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING--THE CASE THAT WON'T GO AWAY

Episode 17 of Season 2 is the first of a two-part episode on the Lindbergh kidnapping, a terrible crime that galvanized the nation in March 1932, in the heart of the Depression. In Part 1, we recap the details of Charles Lindbergh Jr's kidnapping, the 20-month-old son of global hero Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly the Atlantic in 1927 successfully. Charlie Jr., known as 'The Eaglet' (his father was nicknamed 'Lucky Lindy' or 'The Lone Eagle'), was taken from his crib at the family home in New Jersey on a blustery cold winter night. The police acceded to Lindbergh's demand that HE take charge of the entire investigation. The ransom note demanded $50,000 in unmarked bills. Using a retired self-important schoolteacher from the Bronx as the go-between, Lindy made the ransom drop in early April. 

The child was not recovered.

A month later, a truck driver stopping in the New Jersey woods to relieve himself found a child's remains, which animals had ravaged. Lindbergh identified the body as his son and ordered his immediate cremation. 

A German carpenter in the Bronx was eventually arrested and charged with the crime after he paid for gas with one of the gold certificates the police had managed to mark as part of the ransom.  With public outcry at its height and even Lindbergh identifying him in the courtroom as the man he'd heard at the ransom drop, Richard Bruno Hauptmann was judged guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair.

But what really happened to the Lindbergh baby? This case has haunted the American psyche for almost 90 years. 

Part I is only the beginning...

Reach out to Kelly or Susan at [email protected] with comments, questions, or show ideas. We love hearing from you!

Visit Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's author website at: 

https://www.kellyfitzgeraldfowler.com/

Visit Susan Sloate's author website at:

https://susansloate.com

Episode 17 of TALK JAM is sponsored by OVER MY DEAD BODY, the great Biblical thrilled by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler; please check it out here:
https://www.amazon.com/Over-Dead-Body-Supernatural-Historical-ebook/dp/B07GDTQBGM/

Episode 16 of Season 2 is an interview with Susan about her self-help NOVEL--REALIZING YOU: A Novel Approach to Changing Your Life. 

Susan invented a genre--self-help FICTION--in 2013, with this novel, and in this episode, we break down how she got the assignment, how she developed the story and characters, and how she wrote it. Included are some self-help exercises Susan learned years ago, which she put in the novel, and thoughts about how readers received the book. For sure, this is a fun way to help you make big changes!

And since this ENTIRE EPISODE is one BIG commercial for REALIZING YOU (by Ron Doades with Susan Sloate), there is NO commercial break in this episode! Listen to the whole thing and enjoy!

Reach out to Kelly or Susan at [email protected] with comments, questions or show ideas. We love hearing from you!

Visit Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's author website at: 

https://www.kellyfitzgeraldfowler.com/

Visit Susan Sloate's author website at:

https://susansloate.com

Check out REALIZING YOU at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Realizing-You-Ron-Doades-ebook/dp/B00FZ32ZZU/

Episode 15 of Season 2 introduces the man Dos Equis SHOULD be looking for--Mark Novak--a precision instrument repairman who has sailed on America's nuclear submarines, repaired three-hundred-year-old pipe organs in historic churches, taught high-school students HOW to learn, and now researches and restores old guns to their former glory--all while running his own well-respected YouTube channel and discussing history, politics and world economics without missing a beat.

He IS... the most interesting man in the world.

Here's Mark's YouTube channel, for great gunsmithing videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM86hA7E1y3vOJuzdqCXh1Q

 | Mark Novak - YouTube

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As of today, we're proud to announce that TALK JAM has gone around the world! We're being heard in 31 countries and 39 out of 50 US states! Thanks for listening and TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT US, please!

Reach out to Kelly or Susan at [email protected] with comments, questions or show ideas.

Visit Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's website at: 

https://www.kellyfitzgeraldfowler.com/

Visit Susan Sloate's website at:

https://susansloate.com

Episode 15 is sponsored by REALIZING YOU: A Novel Approach to Changing Your Life, the self-help NOVEL by Ron Doades with Susan Sloate:

https://www.amazon.com/Realizing-You-Ron-Doades-ebook/dp/B00FZ32ZZU/

Episode 14 of Season 2 is all over the place! Though we start out (as a follow-up to our maltshop books episode) by talking about the wonderful old-time girls' book series from the great book packager, the Stratmeyer Syndicate (Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins and many more), we also talk about Kelly's book review of READY PLAYER ONE and READY PLAYER TWO, a far more dystopian view of our world! And we segue from there to getting writing work as an author working for a book packager (which Susan did early in her career); it's a great way to get on the map and grow some credits quickly! We even throw in the famous 'Pixar Story Structure', which applies to virtually every Pixar film (and many, many others) ever made!

We also take a moment to discuss the banning of our TALK JAM episode 'I v e r mect i n and the Wall Street Revolution' from Spotify, one of the platforms where you can find this podcast (banned for 'violating their terms of service', whatever that means). We've been canceled for our beliefs--yay!! That must mean somebody's listening!!

If you want to listen to that episode, though, please use this link to choose any OTHER platform to find TALK JAM EXCEPT Spotify (these include Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeart Radio and Pandora):

https://www.buzzsprout.com/749984/directories

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A link to the Pixar story structure formula:

https://medium.com/@Brian_G_Peters/6-rules-of-great-storytelling-as-told-by-pixar-fcc6ae225f50

 | 6 Rules of Great Storytelling (As Told by Pixar) | by Brian G. Peters | MediumEffective storytelling involves a deep understanding of human emotions, motivations, and psychology in order to truly move an audience. Luckily, storytelling is something we all do naturally…medium.com

As always, we welcome your comments, questions and show ideas. Email us at [email protected]; we love hearing from you!! And you can listen to our very FIRST Talk Jam 'EXTRA' episode--a diet update--right here (much shorter--no theme music--and NO ADS!):

https://www.buzzsprout.com/749984/episodes/8197249

Episode 14 is sponsored by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's Biblical thriller, OVER MY DEAD BODY:

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Dead-Body-Supernatural-Historical-ebook/dp/B07GDTQBGM

Welcome to our very FIRST Talk Jam EXTRA!

These will be short segments we'll try to do every month or so... just because we love you, and we want to keep the jammin' going!

You'll notice in our Talk Jam EXTRA segments, there won't be our usual theme music or 'extra' stuff (like NO ADS; yippee!)--just more talk from Kelly and Susan, usually on something we may have talked about before.

Today's TALK JAM EXTRA is an update on our diets (yeeks!) since lockdown began, last year. It's now OVER a year since we were all told to 'stay home to flatten the curve'--which was supposed to take two weeks, but in some cases, those poor people are STILL locked down! We have not experienced the same level of lockdown here, but nonetheless, it's affected how--and WHAT--we've been eating. Oh, boy!

Kelly has continued with her Dukan diet, and Susan has done... well, what Susan usually tends to do. Listen to this short EXTRA and find out!

As always, reach out to us with questions, comments, show ideas and more at [email protected]. We read EVERY email and try to answer them all!

Episode 13 of Season 2 is another special episode! In this one, Susan shares her love for maltshop books--Y/A books written primarily in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's, which feature teens dealing with family or love issues. These books, written by wonderful women writers, helped us grow up by showing us how these characters dealt with their problems and learned from them. No addictions, car crashes or teenage pregnancies in these books--just good, clean fun, lots of laughter and wonderful stories!

Some of Susan's favorites, discussed in this episode, include the Tobey & Midge Heydon series by Rosamund du Jardin (my favorite is PRACTICALLY SEVENTEEN), the Campbell family books by Janet Lambert, BLUEBERRY SUMMER and THE FABULOUS YEAR by Elisabeth Ogilvie, a great Maine writer, and THREE LOVES HAS SANDY by Amelia Elizabeth Walden, as well as Mary Stolz's THE SEAGULLS WOKE ME. I loved them and I still read them--many on Kindle today, thankfully! 

We also discuss the marvelous work of Robbie Branscum, a brilliant Y/A author who published 23 books in her lifetime, all set in the back hills of her Arkansas childhood.  She was the best 'natural' writer I ever knew and a dear friend. Her best-known books are ME AND JIM LUKE and THE MURDER OF HOUND DOG BATES, for which she won an Edgar Award (a prestigious literary prize) for Best Juvenile Mystery.

To complement our maltshop book segment, we then discuss movies and TV shows with important maltshop scenes, which probably include some of YOUR favorite movies, too!

Episode 13 is sponsored by REALIZING YOU: A Novel Approach to Changing Your Life by Ron Doades with Susan Sloate (yes, Susan invented a genre--the self-help novel!)--available in paperback and Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Realizing-You-Ron-Doades-ebook/dp/B00FZ32ZZU

Realizing You - Kindle edition by Doades, Ron, Sloate, Susan. Self-Help Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.Realizing You - Kindle edition by Doades, Ron, Sloate, Susan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading Realizing You.www.amazon.com

Episode 12 of Season 2 is a great discussion about the Rapture, an event referred to in the Bible but seldom (if ever) discussed in your local church. But Kelly is a fearless Bible warrior. She tackles it head-on, talking about how God loves us so much he wants to deliver us from evil (literally) before the Tribulation (also discussed in the Bible) how that's likely to happen. Many conversations here about God's love, about the nature of heaven, and some observations about how God shows us his love whenever we ask.

Here are some links for more information on this enormous topic, with appropriate passages from Scripture:http://biblereasons.com/rapture

The Bible Project:
https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/4820

The Bible. 365 Days. This plan takes you on a journey through the entire Bible over the course of one year. Each book includes videos specifically designed to enhance your understanding and engagement with God's Word. www.bible.com

As always, reach out to us at [email protected] , with suggestions for show ideas and questions or comments. We love hearing from you!

This is an extraordinary episode, sponsored by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's audiobook of OVER MY DEAD BODY, her wonderful Biblical thriller:

https://www.amazon.com/Over-My-Dead-Body-audiobook/dp/B07KKZ84HF

Episode 11 of Season 2 is a real treat for our listeners!

In this episode, in addition to our 'Political Talk' segment, we have an interview with registered nurse Jane K. Dye, who's spent much of her multi-faceted career working with people on a holistic level, to achieve great changes in their bodies through small changes in their habits.

This remarkable woman has done it all--teaching, coaching, nursing--and in each phase she's brought more and more of her own ever-increasing knowledge to bear on the subject of optimal health. Listen as we discuss the lasting effects that making small changes can have on your life, your longevity and your overall health!

Today's segment of Political Talk defines the term 'red-pilling', which came from the film THE MATRIX. "Take the blue pill and believe... whatever you want to believe. Or take the red pill and learn... the truth."

Reach out to Jane at www.janekdye.com, or email her at [email protected]. You can even set up a consultation date right on her site!

As always, reach out to us with any comments, questions or show ideas at [email protected]. 

Today's episode is brought to you by REALIZING YOU: A Novel Approach to Changing Your Life, by Ron Doades and Susan Sloate, a self-help NOVEL (I invented the genre, back in 2013!) and a great read to assist in making those 'small changes that bring big results'.  Filled with a great story and great exercises to help you change your own life, this novel is both a dyamite read and a chance to turn over a new leaf.

https://www.amazon.com/Realizing-You-Ron-Doades-ebook/dp/B00FZ32ZZU