This Week in America with Ric Bratton

QUESTIONS: WHAT IS TRUTH? "DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS?" REGARDING THE BIBLE by David Phillips This book is about questions and about statements made in the Bible. I found myself having many questions after reading from a King James Holy Bible that was revised by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. The New Testament was...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month! Keep the Conversation Going All Year Round. Country Singer and Mother Jana Kramer Has Partnered with Committee For Children (CFC) to Talk About the Conversation Every Parent Should Have with Their Child. She joins Ric on today's program. Jana’s new PSA and The Hot Chocolate Talk (designed to get families talking about child sexual abuse) are designed...

A&E’s New Series LIVE RESCUE Places Viewers in the Middle of the Action as First Responders React to Emergency Situations in Real Time. LIVE RESCUE airs Mondays at 9pm ET/PT on A&E Ric Speaks with the Host of LIVE RESCUE, Veteran Journalist Ashleigh Banfield Following the breakout success of its hit series LIVE PD, which follows law enforcement agencies as they patrol their communities, A&...

Stopping America's Violence Epidemic: How the Church Can Save America by Jim Gardner PH.D There is an epidemic of violence in our country today and every time another mass shooting occurs, the media and politicians erupt into another volatile debate over the causes and the solution. Stopping America's Violence Epidemic provides an analysis of the underlying causes of this violence, as well as a so...

100 Years of Deception: A Blueprint for the Destruction of a Nation by Alan R. Adaschik The citizens of the United States have been played for fools for the past 100 years. Very few of us know what is behind events which have shaped our world. 100 Years of Deception, is one citizen’s attempt to shed light on the truth and inform people about what is behind the events we see happening today. The bo...

New Evidence and Never-Before-Seen Footage Reveal A New Theory in Oxygen’s Two Night Special Event: The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell Ric Talks with Susan’s Mother, Judy Cox, and Investigative Journalist Stephanie Bauer, about the New Series. It was one of the most widely reported and puzzling stories, the tragic case of Susan Cox Powell. The young mom that went missing dominated headlines nea...

Get Ready for Games People Play The Sexy New Series Based on a Best-Selling Book is Coming to BET! Premiering Tuesday April 23rd at 10pm ET/PT Ric Talks with Star Jackie Long (Kevin Hart’s Real Husbands of Hollywood) About this Sizzling New Series. Games People Play is based on the popular book by Angela Burt-Murray, “Games Divas Play.” The new series is a sexy, stylized drama about the L.A. high...

Raising Children to be Vibrantly Healthy 12 Simple Tips that WORK with Susan Smith Jones, MS, PhD Raising healthy children can be a very daunting and challenging task in this day and age with so many activities, poor food choices, sitting too long in front of the computer or smart phone, peer pressure from friends and much more. Our guest today, Dr. Susan Smith Jones, has worked with parents and c...

LEGACY SERIES BY ROBERT MAXXIM Born in 1957, the author experienced several sleep-time visits to other worlds as a child, and witnessed countless alien craft. These visions continue to date, in both wake and sleep states. He studied concert piano starting at age three, but changed his calling to science following his visionary experiences. This book is the culmination of these experiences, shared...

RAISING CHILDREN SOUL TO SOUL: DISCOVERING YOUR LOST CHILDHOOD by Kristy Kaye Children raised with awareness and energy enlightenment are amazing individuals. They have a superior comprehension of life, business, and energy even at a young age, and they quickly learn how to create innovative, successful outcomes. They mature early, and their grasp of life and what it offers them is breathtaking. T...

Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream By: Dr. Frank L. Douglas From growing up in poverty to developing drugs that fight diabetes, seizures, and cancer, Dr. Frank L. Douglas has lived a life based on values, hard work, and self-control. Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream is a reflection on the events and people that made him into the man he is. In 1963, the year of the...

WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, BILLY MAYFAIR? A NOVEL OF THE VIGILANTE WEST by T. Gerald Delaney Where Have You Gone, Billy Mayfair? is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence. Sixteenyear-old Billy Mayfair, kicked out of his home in Illinois by his father, sets out to find a fortune in gold in a remote mining camp in what would become the Montana Terr...

ADVANCING IN ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CRASH COURSE by Gail M. Knox Advancing in Enlightenment: The Crash Course contains forty-four years of metaphysical study of the most profound channeled teachings from five of America's teachers with the highest integrity. With seven simple chapters, this book combines the wisdom of the ages to master the physical reality that surrounds you to personally improve you...

GO ASK THE DEAD by Frank Tropea This new book is about a love-affair gone dangerously wrong between a very psychic girl, Amanda Mannings, and a Gettysburg Civil War ghost named William who was a young, rather handsome Confederate officer when he, like many thousands of others with him were, killed in that infamous battle. She becomes obsessed totally with him and his paranormal love-making skills....

GALACTIC MINDS by Clem Masloff Dr. Mead Quort joins the Hygea, a mental treatment vessel circulating about the Milky Way Galaxy. He works as an archetypal psychoanalyst and opposes medical pharmaceuticals in psychiatry. The ambitious, power hungry Dr. Bax Muh incites a patient rebellion that is defeated. But a new Marfan psychoanalyst introduces hypnotic epiphany treatment. Dr. Muh attempts to use...

TRIUMPH: TAMING THE MONSTER WITHIN by Ingrid Kern Triumph” is the follow up book to “What’s Your Monster’s Name?” in which Ingrid interviewed people telling her how they applied a certain life skill to overcome difficult situations. The author's commitment to overcome her doubts and fears; quiet the voices in her head; and make one of her dreams come true to participate in the Summer Senior Olympi...

Buckle Your Seatbelts… The New Original Docuseries SPEED Explores History’s Greatest Transportation Breakthroughs and the Mind-Blowing Machines of the Future Ric Speaks with SPEED Host Sean Riley About the Newest Modes of Transportation that Will Take Us Farther, Higher and Faster. Available for streaming on April 18th on Curiosity Stream.com Buckle up for a thrilling adventure chronicling humanit...

After 200+ Episodes and Nearly a Decade of Magical Adventures, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Begins its Final Season Ric Catches Up with Actress Tara Strong, the Iconic Voice of “Twilight Sparkle” and Many Other Famous Animated Characters Launched in 2010, Discovery Family’s popular series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic follows the magical Princess Twilight Sparkle and her colorful pony...

"I have to go but I'll meet you in your Dreams - a true story" by Hendrik Kupfernagel When Brigitte Bieber set off on her sailing trip with her husband, they had plans to cruise around the Caribbean for perhaps two years. However, very shortly before they finished their cruise, Brigitte disappeared from a tropical island. As time passed, her son, Hendrik, struggled to come to terms with the potent...

BETRAYED by Eve DeLange The book is about two FBI agents, Ragetti and Smitty, who are handed a case that involved some big names around town. It's up to them to discover just what the crime is and figure out how all the names tie together. Follow the two agents as they piece together clues that lead them to solving two cases all at one time. You never know who the next criminal will be, and there...

For Want of 40 Pounds: From Persecution to Perseverance- How Far Would You Go for Freedom? by Peter Jennings and Frankie Picasso In 1938, Berthold Skurmann was a young boy living in Vienna, Austria when Hitler's Anschluss changed his world. With his father already interred in a concentration camp, and the family home confiscated, life in Vienna grew darker by the day for anyone of Jewish descent....

THE NATURE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT by H. Doyle Smith This book looks at the purpose of government, defines the difference between the purpose of government and of religion, then summarizes the mechanisms of economics as they operate in society. Using these understandings, the author provides practical changes in specific areas that will enhance our ability to work together and prosper. Active in politi...

100 Years of Deception: A Blueprint for the Destruction of a Nation by Alan R. Adaschik The citizens of the United States have been played for fools for the past 100 years. Very few of us know what is behind events which have shaped our world. 100 Years of Deception, is one citizen’s attempt to shed light on the truth and inform people about what is behind the events we see happening today. The bo...

PROJECT: REVENANT PROJECT LEADER: CMDR. LAWRENCE DREXEL JR. (RET.) by Lawrence Drexel Jr. Project: Revenant is about a recently retired government agent who reluctantly agrees to be reinstated amidst the zombie apocalypse. When he is charged with finding out what caused the dead to come back to life and feed on the living, he has to find clues and piece together a cover-up that dates back almost t...

844 Million People Worldwide Don’t Have Clean Drinking Water and More Than 3.5 Million Die Each Year from Water-Related Diseases Ric talks with Philippe Cousteau Jr. about the EarthEcho Water Challenge to Help Protect Critical Water Resources Global water pollution is on the rise due to intensive agriculture, industrial production, and untreated wastewater. In fact, more than 80 percent of wastewa...