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Kasper Michaels is a professional Canadian VO artist living in the UK, with over 10yrs experience of creating voices and narrating various programs. Kasper joins me to discuss some of his experiences in the industry of voice over work and how it has evolved in todays present day form, while also looking at the impact of professions where a voice is key such as radio and animation. Through this epi...

Eric Wilson is a senior lecturer of law at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and author of various books ranging from JFK and deep politics to the eccentric life of Howard Hughes. Eric is back on the show to discuss the law and how government covert operations can act outside what we can fathom, in particular examining controversial issues and basing our judgement on morality and legality.

Kelly Diffie is the creator of "Rusty's Customs" where he takes his artistic talent and recreates or modifies normal products like hot wheels into a custom creation. Kelly also guest lectures at a local school to help promote the concept of critical thinking in times of panic and overconsuming stress. Kelly joins me to discuss some of the trends going on in todays world such as the obsession with...

Jake S. Friedman is an animation historian and author of The Art of Blue Sky Studios and The Disney Afternoon. He has appeared as an expert on TV documentaries and written for Animation Magazine, American History Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Philadelphia Daily News. He worked for ten years as an animation artist on television shows and features, and now works as a mental health specialist, t...

Ben Cort spent a decade inside the drug and alcohol addiction treatment field and is now is a consultant to the industry. Ben is the author of "Weed, Inc.: The Truth About the Pot Lobby, THC, and the Commercial Marijuana Industry" about the THC industry. Ben joins me once again to discuss the commercialization of the THC industry and how the danger should be advanced in the discussion of legalizat...

John Moretta received his Ph. D. in history from Rice University. He is professor of history at Central College, Houston Community College, and teaches at the University of Houston. John joins me again to discuss the counterculture and the hippie movement and how the presidencies of figures like LBJ and Nixon were affected and influenced by the social change of the times.

Mark Duffett is a Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester, UK. Mark is the author of "Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture" which explains in the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. Mark joins me once again to discuss Tom Parker who was the manag...

Scott M. Deitche is an author specializing in organized crime and the Mafia. He has been featured on History Channel, A&E, Discovery Channel, AHC, C-Span, and Oxygen Network. In addition, he has also appeared on dozens of local and national news shows, as well as over 40 radio programs. Scott is the author of "The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr." which exposes the life...

Craig Ciccone is a independent historian who is best known for his work on the life and death of Fred Hampton and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Craig is back to discuss another area of interest, a musician by the name of Robert Palmer an english singer/songwriter who was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz...

William Lunsford is from Texarkana, Arkansas and has been researching and investigating Bigfoot since his first sighting in 1977 at 17 years old. William has been documenting and traveling various states in search for the elusive creatures and has spoken at various conferences about the subject and his research. Through this episode William shares his experiences and perception on the creatures an...

Jeffrey Meek is the former Managing Editor of the Hot Springs Village Voice and has been involved in extensive research of the JFK assassination since 1975. Jeff has joined me once again to discuss his interview with Morris Wolff who worked closely in 1963 in the Oval Office with President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy in writing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and getting it pa...

Russell Kent is the author of "JFK Medical Betrayal: Where The Evidence Lies" which examines the autopsy of JFK and how the president's autopsy did not conform to contemporary medical or legal standards. The result is that precisely where bullets or other foreign bodies entered and exited his body is unknown. Russell joins me again to discuss the most botched autopsy in the world and some of the f...

David Whelan is a documentary filmmaker and writer who has for the last three years researched the assassination of John Lennon. David is back to discuss some areas in John Lennon's death such as the doorman Jose Perdomo and the taxi driver Richard Peterson. This episode will also discuss conflicting testimony of the first police officers who arrived after the shooting and the different documentat...

Jason Latona is a arm-wrestler and personal trainer who spent many years working as a stunt actor for Universal Studios even playing the part of a Power Ranger. Jason runs "Good Pullas" a site dedicated to clothing for athletes and people alike that have a twist on modern day references and worn by other arm wrestlers. Jason is back again and much like most of our conversations we start with no to...

Mikey Bowser is a documentarian and paranormal investigator for "Bump In The Night Society" where he and his team go to haunted locations in search for evidence of the paranormal. Mikey is a frequent guest on the show and through this episode we discuss his understanding of the paranormal and how he views a investigation and how he can relate a positive scientific method to the public.

Shane Church is a researcher and cofounder of “Southern Bigfoot Alliance” which is dedicated to researching and gathering evidence on the existence of Bigfoot or Sasquatch like creatures. Shane has managed to located tracks and create 20in casts in which has been shown at various conferences and in this episode. The casts bring a deeper understanding of the creatures size and movement based on the...

Thom Cantrall is a 5th generation native of the west being a descendant of great-great grandparents who traveled the 1930 miles of the Oregon Trail in 1851 at ages 16 and 7 for Steven and Mary respectively. Thom has been studying the sasquatch since his interest was pique by the Jerry Crew incident in 1958. Along the way, he acquired a BS degree in Forest Engineering from the University of Washing...

Walt Karniski, M.D., is a developmental pediatrician, trained at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was director of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, for fifteen years. He then opened a private practice and for twenty years, evaluated and treated children with ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning disabilities, and other developmental difficulties...

Nancy Weiford is a leading authority on political assassinations of the 1960's, specializing in the John F. Kennedy assassination. Over more than five decades she has poured through documents from the National Archives and presidential libraries, amassed a coded name file for ease in making connections, conducted multiple 1:1 interviews with Dealey Plaza witnesses, relatives, police department...

Gary Hill is a researcher of the JFK assassination and his book "The Other Oswald" which covers the interconnected personalities of Robert Webster and Lee Harvey Oswald. Gary is back to discuss a new book that is coming out about the Kennedy assassination that deals with areas like how Oswald was being monitored when it came to ammunition and firearm purchasing and Hoovers paranoia that the state...

Bruce Olav Solheim has lived a paranormal life since age four, having experienced angels, demons, ghosts, cryptids, telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship, and alien contact. Bruce has published a trilogy of paranormal books about his personal paranormal experiences: Timeless, Timeless Deja Vu, and Timeless Trinity, and most recently published a book about his contact with an ancient alien mystic, A...

Kevin J. Wetmore is Professor of Theatre Arts and Director of the Graduate Program with areas of expertise in Japanese theatre, African theatre, Shakespeare, horror theatre, Asian cinema, horror cinema, Greek tragedy, stage combat and comedy. Kevin is back to discuss the evolution and impact of film in particular horror films and how it can have a significant representation of the current mindset...

Douglas Wellman is a former Hollywood television producer-director, and assistant dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. For over forty years he has been a historian and researcher of the 20th Century. Doug is the author of "Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story" on August 6, 1945, 22-year-old Kaleria Palchikoff was doing pre-breakfast cho...

James Kelleher received his Bachelor’s Degree in political science from CSU Northridge, magna cum laude, and received his Masters Degree from CSU Los Angeles where he was awarded the Alumni Certificate of Honor for outstanding work in political science. James joins me again to cover the area of his book that deals with the murder of J.D. Tippit who was another alleged victim of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Matthew Alford is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. His research concerns the relationship between the media, especially entertainment, and political power. Matt is back to discuss the launch of his "Worst Year Ever" series on Substack & YouTube about the current threat of WW3. Through this episode we talk about his activism on Julian Assange and why it's important not to censor speech.