Talk Jam Podcast

Today's episode of TALK JAM is sponsored by FORWARD TO CAMELOT, the time-travel thriller by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn, about the JFK assassination, available on Kindle and paperback at Amazon and other online bookstores.

Episode 23, Jam 1 is a discussion about the rioting across America in the wake of the George Floyd murder last week. Kelly and Susan have some interesting insights into not only what happened but why it happened. (Hint: Think Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass," in Nazi Germany.) Here is the link to the Officer Tatum youtube video discussed during the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIhRvkT8kg&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2IVGh5zPCqOgmgasQnyuJF0J6ucgz9it0TXGCNk2H1KzRETPURptqv8_4

Jam 2 is a discussion of a new film, THE INSURRECTION, which Susan saw last week and immediately asked many of her friends to see. THE INSURRECTION is the first film depiction (that we know of) about the global power struggle that's been waged for generations, and how brainwashing women to hate men and reject marriage (ie, feminism) and normalizing alternative lifestyles is destroying peoples lives. It sounds like a science-fiction plot, but it's not; it's ripped from today's headlines and it's REAL. And when you understand that, you understand why the riots are happening and why the COVID shutdown occurred. After this recording, Kelly saw the film and found the film interesting, but it clearly had a meager budget and not a great movie (as Susan had mentioned in the podcast). As a warning, there are blood splatter scenes that catch you off guard. The script is clunky, and you will need subtitles on. 

We talk about a LOT of connected things, including the Bolshevik Revolution, and how WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is an easy way to remember the people who are looking to destroy us...

Jam 1 is a lively discussion about someone we miss: comedian Robin Williams, who left behind an amazing body of work. We talk about his films, his stand-up comedy, his life and death. We love you, Robin! Rest in peace.

Jam 2 features Kelly's description of the amazing MAGA Boat Rally in Charleston Harbor over Memorial Day weekend. After a boater in Florida wrapped his boat in Trump-related gear and got an amazing response, he decided to do it again, moving up the eastern seaboard for additional events. On Memorial Day it was Charleston's turn, and over 1000 boats came out to show their support for the president, while Kelly ended up in the middle of it all! A great time was had by everyone!

In this episode of TALK JAM, we have our first special guest, John Soforic, best-selling author of THE WEALTHY GARDENER: Lessons on Prosperity Between Father and Son. This excellent book on personal finance, which John wrote for his son, has taken the publishing world by storm. From its beginning last year as a self-published finance book with unusual spiritual overtones, it has become a major success, partly due to John's own unique marketing choices. It was picked up late last year by Random House/Penguin and re-published in February in a new edition. John talks to Kelly and Susan about his journey as a broke thirty-year-old who vowed to change his financial future to his success in real estate. Then his retirement at age 49, to the writing of the book and his choice to self-publish. His journey to learn the marketing process and his incredible negotiations with his new publisher to achieve the best possible positioning for the latest version. John's candid and humble look at his writing life is a revelation; listen and learn what he learned!

Here's John's website https://wealthygardener.com/

This episode is brought to you by Forward To Camelot by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn https://www.amazon.com/Forward-Camelot-Anniversary-Susan-Sloate/dp/1935970143

Episode 20-Diets, Lockdown Binge-Watching & Mothers Day

Jam 1--Diet Update--In Jam 1, Susan gives us an update on her progress with Intermittent Fasting while in lockdown (spoiler alert: it's not great news). While she HAS kept fasting for at least part of every day, her 21-hour fasts from a few months ago are only a memory at the moment. She's hopeful, though, that lifting the lockdown means a new beginning to her IF adventure!

Jam 2--Lock-down Binge Watching--In Jam 2, Kelly and Susan talk about the shows they've enjoyed binge-watching throughout lockdown. Kelly and her daughter have been enjoying mother-daughter time with shows like MCMILLIONS, while Susan has been getting her sports fix with ESPN'S THE LAST DANCE, the 10-part documentary about the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls and their quest for one last championship while the legendary Michael Jordan played for them.  With some musings on this year's sports schedule, how Susan gave birth two weeks early and stories about 9/11. Great stuff!

Jam 3--Mother's Day--Kelly and Susan BOTH enjoyed Mother's Day this year! They each give a blow-by-blow account of spending the day with their families and Kelly adds a note on the joy of eating OUT, something we haven't done in a LONG time!"

This episode of TALK JAM is sponsored by OVER MY DEAD BODY, the supernatural novel by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler. http://smarturl.it/overmybody

Episode 19 is sponsored by FORWARD TO CAMELOT, by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn. https://www.amazon.com/Forward-Camelot-Susan-Sloate/dp/1414014880

Jam #1--OUT OF SHADOWS--

A conversation about the new documentary, OUT OF SHADOWS, featuring two longtime Hollywood stuntmen who discovered quite by accident that the entertainment business, and the media, have been permeated by the messages deliberately put out by the American intelligence community, something that's been going on for decades. We talk about the decades-long Operation Mockingbird and why EVERY newscaster seems to say the VERY SAME THING in the VERY SAME words... strange!! There's also some chat about why the major media figures of the 20th Century all seemed to have a background in the military... from Bill Paley at CBS to Bill Donovan, who helped Walt Disney buy the Florida swampland that became Disney World!

The link to watch OUT OF SHADOWS free (HIGHLY recommended!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTiCxXgrJw

Jam #2--What questions would YOU ask Jesus's disciples?

Susan and Kelly talk about the questions they'd ask if they could, since the disciples knew Jesus better than anyone... Susan is all about the personalities, while Kelly really wants answers about the supernatural! Is it any surprise?

There's also a lively talk about the new Mel Gibson movie, the sequel to his wildly successful PASSION OF THE CHRIST, which Susan has conveniently written an article about--check it out here:

https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/passion-of-the-christ-sequel-gibson/

Episode 18 is sponsored by OVER MY DEAD BODY by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler, a great read for Holy Week as we prepare for the celebration of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.  You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/Over-My-Dead-Body-Supernatural/dp/1947303333?tag=smarturl-20

Episode 18 has two jams:

Jam 1--LOCKDOWN--How people are coping with being inside (often in beautiful weather!) and adjusting their lives to a different rhythm. Kelly and Susan discuss interesting and funny lockdown diversions, how Noah was actually locked down himself in the Ark for a year, showing faith in God, how Kelly is using the time to take an online writing class in Biblical fiction, how Susan is using Masterclass to learn more about cooking, and why cooking meat is one of her last great fears, and how homeschooling is changing. Teenagers are even talking to older people when they see you outside! It's an amazing time!

Here's the link to a great family singalong of "One Day More" from LES MISERABLES; enjoy!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZafX_U5aqs

Jam 2--MURDER MOST FOUL--Kelly initiates a conversation about Bob Dylan's just-released song "Murder Most Foul", about the JFK assassination, and how the interesting and complex lyrics give us clues about his own feelings on the subject. This leads to an off-topic conversation about the Lincoln assassination, Susan's segment about Lincoln on CANDID CAMERA when she was a child, her encounter with Allen Funt years later in Hollywood, the Tavistock Institute in the United Kingdom and how it's trying to socially engineer an entirely different society, and Susan's discussion about Malcolm Wallace, an aide to LBJ, whose fingerprints were found on the 6th floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository on November 22, 1963, along with mention of the FBI informant who kept Kennedy from being shot two weeks earlier in a motorcade in Chicago. Who was the informant? You don't want to miss finding out!

Here's the link to Susan's biography of Abraham Lincoln on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Lincoln-Freedom-President-Great-ebook/dp/B004GUT1NC/

Episode 17 is sponsored by FORWARD TO CAMELOT, the JFK assassination time-travel thriller by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn.

In Jam 1, we talk about THE NATIONAL PULSE, an online political magazine in which Susan has just published her first article about Chloroquine and its possible implications for the coronavirus. There are also some interesting correlations between chloroquine and malaria patients (Hint: malaria patients taking chloroquine show far LESS infection from coronavirus than patients who haven't taken it!)

In Jam 2, we talk about favorite Easter films, including THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, SON OF GOD, and others. We also discuss the news that Mel Gibson is doing a sequel to THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (15 years later!), once again starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus. The new version will cover the Resurrection, so it should be well worth seeing--with none of that horrible violence from the original to worry about! Also, check out the free app called The Chosen by VidAngel. An excellent series on the life of Jesus when he met the disciples. 

Jam 3 is a special off-the-cuff jam we recorded last week--when Susan couldn't contain herself and just had to call Kelly after being on a conference call with THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! Hear all the juicy details here!

"In Episode 16, Jam 1 is an interview with Kelly about her wonderful children's book, THE AMAZING MR. BIG, which is a 229-word recap of the Bible which RHYMES!! It's a clever way to introduce young children to the concepts and stories, starting in Genesis and continuing into the Book of Acts in the New Testament, introducing important characters, including Jesus Christ himself. Join us to hear how Kelly came up with the idea and actually wrote the entire book in TEN MINUTES!! In a strange act of total coincidence, Episode 16 is sponsored by Kelly's book, THE AMAZING MR. BIG.

Jam 2 is an update on what's happening around the country with COVID-19, the coronavirus, how people are reacting to it and why the media is the villain in terrifying people into panic buying, hoarding and even price gouging. Though Susan is a trained journalist and has worked in the field for years, right now we are NOT a fan of the media!

Jam 3 is a brief discussion of an article that appeared on March 19th in Breitbart News, about Ethiopian nomads who have died in unusual numbers since 2014--more than 2000 of them--from a painful disease that's causing bleeding from their eyes and ears and a change in skin pigment to a yellow-green color. This is alarming, especially when you consider that this pretty much began with a Chinese company coming into Ethiopia to create commercial opportunities. Did it dump toxic waste into the nomads' water supply? Was it testing the effects of a military-grade bio-weapon on these people, figuring that nomadic tribes would not be missed if it caused them to die? Some interesting speculation here!

Our bonus Jam today is about a little-known article from PLAYGIRL (1979) about a phenomenon called 'aloners'--people who seem to get their strength from being alone more often than they are with people. They are not anti-social, but aloners always seem to need that extra time to gather themselves to face others. Is this you? (Susan says it's her, for sure!) Let us know if YOU're an aloner, and how you keep your balance in this very social world!"

This episode is sponsored by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's children's book THE AMAZING MR. BIG, a roller coaster of a book that tells every major story in the Bible in just over 200 words! https://kellyfitzgeraldfowler.com/the-amazing-mr-big/

In our first jam, we talk about someone most of us still love--the one and only Lucille Ball, of I LOVE LUCY fame. Susan has some insights into her career and her marriage to Desi Arnaz, and Kelly talks about her favorite episodes and the impact they had on her. Don't miss this one; we had a 'ball' doing it!

We really get into the weeds in Jam 2, talking about great athletes and what happens to them when their athletic careers are over. If you're Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, how do you re-capture the passion of your playing days when you have to stop playing, sometimes sooner than you wanted to, because of injuries or other factors? Is anything on earth as exciting, ever again? What can you do to bring back that excitement? Where does your focus go now? This jam includes a great quote from the movie THE NATURAL, as well as some deep philosophical musings by Kelly and Susan. 

"In this episode, Susan talks about her experience attending the Trump rally and how it felt to stand in line for EIGHT (gulp!) hours! 

In the second jam, we have a lively discussion about the #walkaway movement (Democrats walking away from the Democratic Party), why and when it began and how it's impacting the 2020 presidential election. 

This episode is sponsored by Kelly Fitzgerald Fowler's Biblical Fiction novel, OVER MY DEAD BODY." https://www.amazon.com/Over-My-Dead-Body-Supernatural/dp/1947303333