Talk Jam Podcast

Episode 33 of TALK JAM is a lively discussion about the first 3 1/2 years of the Trump Administration and its tremendous achievements. While the media would like you to believe that Trump does nothing except tweet, play golf and think up new ways to be racist in the Oval Office, those of us who have been watching have seen enormous strides in a number of areas. Kelly and Susan pick their top 3 favorite achievements and discuss them, from energy independence to defunding Planned Parenthood to lowering the boom on drug dealers and sex traffickers. It's been a great 3 1/2 years!

Want to learn more about the Trump Administration victories? Visit www.promiseskept.com for a complete list, organized by timeline (month and year) or topic. 

Here is the link to The Atlantic article Kelly referenced regarding fentanyl pouring in through the southern border via China. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/chinese-company-helping-fuel-opioid-epidemic/596254/

Bonus topic: Joe Biden's complete list of career accomplishments, so short you could print them on a chewing-gum wrapper, and a quick rundown of Kamala Harris's most egregious political sins, in a career full of them.

We also talked about Donald Trump's career pre-presidency, and we're including a clip of his 2005 appearance before a Senate Committee about remodeling the United Nations (relevant clip begins at 1:35:30):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xsyh_c8iic

This episode of TALK JAM is sponsored by Susan's 2018 award-winning love story, STEALING FIRE: https://www.amazon.com/STEALING-FIRE-Susan-Sloate-ebook/dp/B07D1QD21D/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QL1IH3UMMAM9&dchild=1&keywords=stealing+fire+by+susan+sloate&qid=1598971976&sprefix=stealing+fire+sus%2Caps%2C221&sr=8-1

Episode 32 of TALK JAM is a lighthearted look at time travel, both movies and books. Kelly and Susan LOVE time travel stories, so this is right up their alley! Join us for this lively talk about what makes great time travel stories great!!

Episode 32 is sponsored by OVER MY DEAD BODY, a supernatural novel by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler:

https://www.amazon.com/Over-Dead-Body-Supernatural-Historical-ebook/dp/B07GDTQBGM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WXMSGHMX475C&dchild=1&keywords=over+my+dead+body+kelly+fitzgerald+fowler&qid=1598972305&s=books&sprefix=over+my+dead+body+kelly+fitz%2Cstripbooks%2C214&sr=1-1

Kelly's Top 5 favorite time-travel movies are:

5) BACK TO THE FUTURE

4) THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE

3) FREQUENCY 

2) ABOUT TIME

1) SOMEWHERE IN TIME

Susan's favorite time-travel books are:

3) and 2) TIME AND AGAIN and FROM TIME TO TIME, both by Jack Finney

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Again-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00AK9IY0O/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G5AY7MYRXISN&dchild=1&keywords=time+and+again+by+jack+finney&qid=1596818834&sprefix=time+and+again%2Caps%2C234&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Book-ebook/dp/B00AK9IXBY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J2XEJN20442F&dchild=1&keywords=from+time+to+time+by+jack+finney&qid=1596818866&sprefix=from+time+to+time%2Caps%2C260&sr=8-1

1) FORWARD TO CAMELOT by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn

https://www.amazon.com/Forward-Camelot-Anniversary-Susan-Sloate-ebook/dp/B00EVWYDG0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=forward+to+camelot&qid=1596818907&s=books&sr=1-1

THANK YOU ALL for making sure TALK JAM has now had 500 podcast downloads!! We're thrilled and can't wait to do more!

And if you have an idea about something you'd like us to talk about on TALK JAM, please email us at [email protected]!!

Episode 31 is a disturbing conversation about the online furniture company Wayfair, which may or may not be involved in some deeply upsetting activities, possibly involving child sex trafficking. Susan was first alerted to this by a YouTube video from Amazing Polly, and Kelly has been following the story for a while. This is an important story, but it takes some intestinal fortitude to listen!!

Here's the Amazing Polly YouTube Video from July 14th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DonX1XtHlaA&t=1s Wayfair Questions Need to be Asked

The telephone number for 24-hour Hotline for Child Sex Trafficking (if you see something, say something!): 1-888-373-7888.

Number to text any suspicious activity to (you can snap a photo on your phone and send it, with a comment), to 233733 (National Human Trafficking hotline). Whatever you can do to help stop this scourge is much appreciated!!

Episode 31 is sponsored by STEALING FIRE, a romantic novel by Susan Sloate:

https://www.amazon.com/STEALING-FIRE-Susan-Sloate-ebook/dp/B07D1QD21D/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stealing+fire+susan+sloate&qid=1595438131&sr=8-1

TALK JAM Episode 30 is a discussion about hoaxes, primarily financial hoaxes, in their various forms. Kelly has a background as a credit-card fraud investigator, going back to the 1990s, and talks about her work in recognizing and investigating financial frauds perpetrated on the public.  We talk about a number of different types of fraud and what to be concerned about. NEVER just hand out your credit card number, bank account number or other personal information to ANYONE, for any reason! If something seems suspicious, chances are there's something not right about it: Beware! It could cost you thousands of dollars to be wrong!!

We wind up with a talk about one of the most famous (non-financial) hoaxes of all time, the WAR OF THE WORLDS radio broadcast at Halloween, 1938, which all these years later is still America's best-known show from the Golden Age of Radio.

Episode 30 is sponsored by STEALING FIRE, a romantic novel by Susan Sloate:

https://www.amazon.com/STEALING-FIRE-Susan-Sloate-ebook/dp/B07D1QD21D/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=stealing+fire+susan+sloate&qid=1595438131&sr=8-1

Show Notes:

Episode 29 is a fascinating discussion about Dr. RIchard Bartlett, a Dallas emergency-room doctor who's been using an unusual protocol for COVID-19, which includes a 100% CURE rate among his ER patients, some of whom are extremely ill with other diseases at the same time. Dr. Bartlett is using an INHALED STEROID, similar to what doctors in Shanghai, Taiwan and Japan are using, and it's inexpensive, highly effective and working beautifully! Join us to learn what else he's doing to get his patients well in record time!

Included in this episode is mention of Johns Hopkins' Coronavirus Resource Center: here's the link:

http://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

The steroid Dr. Bartlett is using so successfully is Budesonide, along with the antibiotic chloromycetin and the supplement zinc. 

Episode 29 is sponsored by the time-travel thriller novel, FORWARD TO CAMELOT, by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn.

Show Notes:

Episode 28 is a long-ranging talk about the upcoming presidential election, including some observations about Kanye West's late entry into the race as an independent candidate, a reminiscence about Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, and some thoughts about the current polling and why it isn't accurate at all. Episode 28 is sponsored by the time-travel thriller novel FORWARD TO CAMELOT, by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn.

Episode 27 is sponsored by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's great children's book, THE AMAZING MR. BIG, a very short story (in rhyme) that covers all the important concepts in the Bible. Great for children to start learning about God and his story; check it out!

In Episode 27, we talk about SONG OF THE SOUTH, the Disney movie that Disney tries not to acknowledge because they believe it's full of racist concepts. So even though it's not even on the Disney+ platform, you can find it on other streaming services. Susan saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and for Kelly, it was her FIRST experience watching a movie in the theater! Enjoy our talk about the movie, what we liked, and how we felt about the complaints through the years about 'racism'. 

We touch briefly on other censured movies history as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Dirty Harry, and Noah. 

Episode 26 is another diet update and a discussion of how we've managed our diets during the lockdown. It isn't easy to do intermittent fasting while locked down, nor is it easy to maintain calorie and exercise schedules, as Kelly does, while unable to go out normally. But now that we're out of lockdown, we're both making progress back to where we were! A lively talk about IF, My Fitness Pal and a number of other interesting ways of eating, including clean and dirty Keto and the Five-Bites Diet. 

Make sure you check out the DELAY, DON'T DENY Facebook group (started by Gin Stephens, author of DELAY, DON'T DENY and the brand-new FAST. FEAST. REPEAT.). Gin lost 80 pounds a few years ago and kept off EVERY POUND with intermittent fasting, and she's got a passion for it, and the group, with more than 282,000 members worldwide, is terrific!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/DelayDontDeny

Episode 26 brought to you by the audiobook of  Over My Dead Body: A Supernatural Novel, By Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler and read by NYT bestselling author, James L. Rubart. You can find more details about the audible version of this book here: https://www.audible.com/pd/Over-My-Dead-Body-Audiobook/B07KLJVGSV

Today's TALK JAM is an exciting two-part interview with Teresa Ward, who's been studying and interpreting dreams for many, many years, as a way to bring us closer to God. Her book, GATEWAY TO DREAMS, discusses the basics of interpreting dreams and emphasizes that 'everything is about context' when understanding what particular symbols mean TO THE DREAMER. Teresa has a podcast as well, the Gateway to Dreams Dreamcast, where she discusses and interprets dreams, which can teach, prophesy or confirm (among many other categories) what's going on in your life and what your next steps might be, and warn you of upcoming challenges to prepare for now.

Reach Teresa at www.gatewaytodreams.com

Episode 25 is sponsored by FORWARD TO CAMELOT, the time-travel thriller about the JFK assassination by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn.

TALK JAM Episode 24 has two jams, both dealing with the racism concerns we've been focusing on over the last few weeks.

Jam 1 is a passionate discussion about GONE WITH THE WIND and HBO MAX's decision to remove it from its service. Susan is a huge GWTW fan, and Kelly does a mean Vivien Leigh impression (demonstrated in the segment). We discuss the movie, portions of the book not usually discussed and other topics involving Hattie McDaniel's Oscar win as the first black actor ever to be nominated OR WIN. Either way, GONE WITH THE WIND, a classic American film, should NEVER be banned!

Jam 2 continues our discussion of racism by focusing on the life of Sammy Davis Jr., possibly America's greatest and most versatile entertainer--singer, dancer, actor, mimic, nightclub entertainer, Broadway star, TV and movie performer, recording artist and more--whose career trajectory in the 1940s and 1950s took him straight to the heart of racism in America's core (by people who considered themselves liberal). His struggle to live a life of dignity not constantly focused on his race was profound and cost him dearly. This jam is well worth listening to!

As always, we welcome your questions and comments, and if you have a topic you'd like us to address in future jams, we hope you'll let us know!

This episode of TALK JAM  is brought to you by the novel, Over My Dead Body, by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler.