The Silver Linings Handbook

Jayson is joined by Brett Tally, an author of several bestselling novels and anthologies including He Who Walks in Shadow, That Which Should Not Be and The Fiddle Is the Devil's Instrument. He has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement which is the top award for horror writing presented annually by the Horror Writers Association.

Brett is also the author of several true ghost stories and a nonfiction book called Haunted Tuscaloosa, which explores the paranormal in the Alabama town from the now shuttered local insane asylum in antebellum mansions said to be haunted by ghosts to cemeteries where confederate soldiers are still said to march and ghost stories from the University of Alabama Grounds.

Brett is an attorney and his interests include horror, science fiction, the paranormal and other whodunnit mysteries. He's the host of the Prosecutor's Podcast where he and his co-host Alice tackle well-known and less known true crime cases. But they also tackle some mysteries and some flat out hard to explain events.

Today we're going to discuss the paranormal, horror, science fiction and all that's mysterious and spooky both about fiction and in reality.

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Check out The Prosecutors podcast and The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs, both hosted by Brett and Alice.

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Two weeks ago, the author Allison Dickson joined us for a surprisingly bright conversation about darkness and this week I joined Allison on her podcast, Ding Dong Darkness Time, a show that explores the weird, the morbid and the macabre whether supernatural or not. More than a podcast about horror or the paranormal, Ding Dong Darkness Time is an exploration of society, culture, sociology, psychology and history.

I joined Allison this week on Ding Dong Darkness Time to talk about werewolves and shapeshifters. We explore the connection to our beliefs about shapeshifters and our fear of change while at the same time having a deep desire to change into something that can keep us and our loved ones safe. We also discuss the role that culture plays in these myths and a new era of the supernatural in the creative arts that increasingly empowers women and ties back into non-European roots about the supernatural. At the end of the day we use horror and the paranormal to explore things we don't understand, things that science cannot explain and things that we have a hard time emotionally grappling with.

Like the title, werewolves are just one example of the shapes we take and I'm thrilled to be able to offer that discussion as a bonus episode.

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Jayson is joined by Julia Cowley, a retired FBI agent and Criminal Profiler. Julia spent 22 years in law enforcement investigating violent crime including 11 years as an agent and a decade more as a member of the famed Behavioral Analysis Unit or BAU. Julia makes no bones about the fact that true crime is what led her toward forensic science and law enforcement. Prior to joining the FBI, Julia was a special agent and forensic scientist with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University Of Oregon and a master's degree in forensic science from George Washington University.

At the BAU, Julia was the lead profiler in the Golden State Killer case and has had other assignments in the FBI including investigating white-collar crime, public corruption and civil rights matters.

Today, we're going to look at Israel Keyes through the lens of an actual FBI profiler. This episode was inspired by 3 amazing episodes that Julia and her colleagues did on Israel Keyes where I learned a lot of things that frighten people about Keyes really just had to do with mundane elements of what his interests are and we'll also discuss what we should really be worried about.

Listen to part one and part two of the other episodes we had Julia on and check out her podcast, The Consult.

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Joining Jayson today is Allison Dickson, who's been writing novels and short stories for more than 15 years and who's the host of the Ding Dong Darkness Time podcast. Allison is the author of several well-reviewed, independently published novels as well as a debuted thriller, The Other Mrs. Miller. That book was picked up by Putnam in the United States and other publishers across the globe. Some of the other writing she has done includes the horror thriller, Strings, a chilling tale of entrapment and greed and the dystopian science fiction novel, Last Supper.

In this episode, we're going to explore our fascination with darkness but one thing I can guarantee is you're going to find this conversation a lot brighter than you imagined.

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Jason is the creator, producer, writer and head elf of the true crime satire podcast Santa Maybe, a Criminal. Jason has been an audio producer for more than a half dozen popular podcasts including several popular true crime podcasts and those of other genres. We talk about creating and writing fictional characters, both those that are naughty and those that are nice and how to create authentic characters that people can relate to but who also can take people to a magical and different place.

We're going to discuss the inspirations for those, what it takes to make an authentic and transporting character and the gift that writers all give us through taking us to other places. While we focus on fiction, they go off the beaten track to talk about some of the biggest issues of the day.

Stay tuned until the end to hear the scariest moment of Jason's life...

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Listen to part one of the first episode with Jason and find part two here.

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In this episode, Jayson is joined by Shawn Rech, a documentary director and producer and former journalist who's mostly known for his films that document wrongful convictions and unjust sentencing. Sean has been a frequent guest on television shows and podcasts over the last few weeks because of his directing of the recent film Convicting a Murderer, a rebuttal to the Netflix documentary, Making a Murderer, but there's much more to Sean as a man as a father as a journalist and a documentarian

Jayson and Shawn talk about the difficult road to bringing Convicting a Murderer to the screen, the resistance that Shawn and his partners face from big distribution companies and talent agents because of the topic and its opposing views to the Netflix hit. Plus, hear how Convicting a Murderer got picked up almost accidentally by The Daily Wire and how Sean's autism may have been his superpower in getting this documentary created. They also talk about the challenge that documentary makers who pursue unpopular theories and themes, especially those that run against the interests of their corporate partners, run into these days.

Check out Convicting a Murderer here.

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We have taken you to what the life of a New York Times reporter and a podcaster trying to cover The Lost and Forgotten is like. We've looked at the world through the eyes of an FBI profiler and a woman who's trying to catch a serial killer who's killed her cousin. But this month...the month of October, each week we're going to take you into the world of horror, the paranormal, and some darkness.

We will explore the spooky month through the lens of a horror writer. We'll look at what it takes to create characters that are scary and nice. We'll look at why we as people are so fascinated by darkness with an author, and we'll explore the real life nightmare of the serial killer Israel Keys. One of our episodes this month will be with Jason, the creator of the Santa Maybe, a Criminal Podcast, which you will hear the trailer for in this episode.

Stay tuned for a month of horror, paranormal and darkness.

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At a time when so much divides us, music like fictional books, television and movies are one of those things that tends to bring us together, Dani and Colton and their group NI/CO, have put a focus on what ties us together as partners in life and in music.

In 2016, Colton and Dani began writing and within two years they had a body of work that they released their first single which was a creative spin on Marvin Gay's, What's Going On. Eventually, they moved to Los Angeles where they've become well known for their work producing music videos and songs both as cover artists and for their own work. They have also created songs written with producers in Nashville, Los Angeles and London and have been featured on several top Spotify playlists and have appeared on various music networks including the CW Network, VH1, BET and Freeform, featured in promos for The Today Show, the World of Dance and advertising campaigns for Spotify and Ralph Lauren.

They've been entrepreneurial in their efforts doing everything from building custom wedding playlists, creating custom covers, creating their own music and performing.

Follow along with Dani and Colton on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and find their music here.

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In today's episode, we continue our conversation with Gloria Bobertz about the uncaught Lewis-Clark Valley Serial Killer who is believed to have killed her 21-year-old cousin, the 1982 Lewiston Civic Theatre murders in Lewiston, ID, the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Christina Lee White in Asotin, WA and the 1981 and the links between them. In a conversation that is in turns saddening, maddening and inspiring, Jayson and Gloria discuss how the suspect, who lives in North Carolina, has evaded arrest, the toll on the mental health of victims' families and how good can come from turning your sadness and anger into something that helps others.

Listen to part one with Gloria, here.

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On a cool September night in Lewiston, a town of nearly 28,000 people along the Snake River in Idaho, three young people went missing from the Lewiston Civic Theatre, a community theatre in a building originally constructed in 1907 as a methodist church. Among others, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson disappeared and was found dead months later. That began Gloria Bobertz's decade long search for the serial killer responsible for their deaths.

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