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Welcome to One Good Thing Media, your official podcast review channel. We search the vast digital landscape on a daily basis to discover the best shows that podcasters have to offer. Are you ready to discover new favorites to add to your playbook? Stay tuned and listen to host Gerald Spears' latest podcast reviews.

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Hello everyone. Welcome to One Good Thing Media, season 3, episode 3. It is so good to be with all of you. I hope you are having a wonderful week and are ready to discover some new podcasts to add to your playlist of favorite shows. For those of you who are new to our podcast, my name is Gerald Spear and I am the creator and host of One Good Thing Media, a show that's dedicated to reviewing and recommending many of the best shows in the podcast universe. To make sure that you never miss a single episode, please tap on the follow and notification buttons. You are following us, aren't you? If you aren't, these simple acts of support mean the world to us. This week, we have three new podcasts that you'll want to check out, and also established podcasts that you might have missed. The latter, by the way, is easy to do, since there are over 300,000 podcasts regularly broadcasting and there's no centralized search engine.

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Specifically, for podcasts or podcast genres. Before we get going, I want to remind our faithful fans and all the new people that find us each week that we also have a second and newer podcast called Skirting Danger Women's Safety. I've taken on this extra show because, quite frankly, in many ways, there is a war on women going on right now. The streets are more dangerous, public transportation is sketchy at best, there are more people out there with bad intentions, making it so important that we protect ourselves by avoiding danger in the first place. The primary intention for Skirting Danger is to help women avoid becoming crime victims while traveling, shopping, socializing, meeting new people and even while staying at home. We talk to experts about how to read individual body language and read crowds, what situational awareness really entails, how to investigate people you've just met, different ways to protect your purse and your ID, and much more. We also interview women who have already become crime victims and have great insights into what all women can do going forward to avoid these terrible situations.

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We also have a free newsletter that you can subscribe to. It contains exclusive tips on how you can safely navigate your life. The link to subscribe to the newsletter is in our show notes, and now are you ready to rumble? Let's start out with some news and quickies. This segment is particularly exciting for me because I have absolutely fallen in love with the new shows that I'm about to talk about. My first news bit for today is about a new podcast entitled Reclaiming, with Monica Lewinsky. People of a certain age already know the 1990s White House scandal that involved 24-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky and then President Clinton.

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It included salacious behavior, a cigar, secret recordings, lies and denials, and a blue dress stained with, shall we say, presidential DNA. The young Monica had stars in her eyes and her paramour knew just how to seduce her. And wouldn't you know it? After all the dirty laundry and condemnations quieted down, president Clinton's legacy remained relatively unscathed, despite being impeached for his naughty behavior, while Monica found herself forever unemployable and pretty much ostracized by polite society. Today, monica is 51 years old, still gorgeous, and possesses wisdom that can only be developed through making huge mistakes and ultimately rising from the ashes of her previous life. In episode one, monica Lewinsky is actually interviewed by her producer to talk about not so much dwelling on what happened in the White House, but the aftermath going to court, having to figure out how to pay a million dollars for attorneys, talking about being really just sort of walking around with an A embroidered on all of her clothing. People didn't want to hire her.

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When her name was called out in a room, she would hear snickering. It was just very difficult for her for many, many years. She talks about what happened, how she got through it and how she finally after years decades really embraced who she was as a young intern and who she is today to lead a more fruitful and happy life. In subsequent episodes she has, I think, three of them out right now she interviews famous and not famous people who have also triumphed over very painful pasts. If you aren't familiar with Monica Lewinsky and the key role that she played in the Clinton scandal during the 1990s, or if you just want to refresh your memory, the multi-part tell-all series entitled Impeached the Clinton Affair on Amazon and, by the way, you can watch it free if you're a Prime member gives you all the details about what went on with Monica, also with the Whitewater scandal and, of course, paula Jones course, paula Jones. I'm also excited to share the new Tenderfoot TV's Up and Vanished Revisited series, starting with Season 1, the Tara Grinstead Case, which first aired in 2016. There have been several seasons and investigations since that time and creator and host Payne Lindsey promises to revisit all of them with updates, new developments and material that he was unable to include when his Up and Vanished investigations were first broadcast.

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Up and Vanished not to be confused with Payne's new Up and Vanished weekly podcast is renowned for its lengthy investigations into cases involving people who have disappeared and are believed to have been victims of foul play. My confession At the time of this recording, only two episodes of the Tara Grinstead case revisited have dropped, and I'm already addicted. If you haven't listened to the original Up and Vanished seasons, you certainly can follow Up and Vanished Revisited without doing so. However, if you want to be deeply invested in Payne Lindsay and the true unsolved crimes that he investigates, listen to each of the original seasons first. Here's an edited clip from the first episode of the Terry Grinstead case Revisited. It will further explain the intent of Up and Vanished Revisited series and give you an insightful glimpse into the content and personality of this legendary podcast. Where is Tara?

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Grinstead.

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From Tenderfoot TV in Atlanta. This is Up and Vanished. It's weird listening back to this. I was just some guy in his apartment sitting in front of a microphone I just bought at Best Buy thinking, yeah, I'll just go solve a murder mystery real quick, like no big deal. I had no journalism background, no investigative training, just a Google search bar, a fascination with the podcast serial and, well, a lot of misplaced confidence. I said from Tenderfoot TV in Atlanta. What I really meant was from my apartment in Kennesaw where I was living with my younger brother.

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At the time, saying from Tenderfoot TV felt more official, like I was some organization or a team, but at that time it was just me. I came up with the name Tenderfoot because it's the lowest rank in Boy Scouts. My dad was an Eagle Scout. He made me join Boy Scouts in middle school and I didn't like it and the furthest I got was Tenderfoot. But hey, they don't hand that badge out, you still have to earn it. Crazy to think that all these years later, saying Tenderfoot TV means something completely different. Like a lot of people, I have been pretty obsessed with the podcast Serial and the Netflix series Making a Murderer and I thought to myself, what if I made one of those? So I literally just went to Google and started searching there it is.

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That's me Fully committing to this, like I had a single clue what I was about to uncover Spoiler alert I didn't, but somehow it might have been my greatest advantage. God, this part still cracks me up. It either makes you think this guy's absolutely ridiculous or wow, how cool an average Joe can go make a true crime podcast. But it's what I did. I literally went to Google and started searching.

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To Ocella, to her principal's house because he had a cookout that night.

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Man, I could have never imagined that my actual grandma would be the one to drop a bombshell on me on an unsolved missing persons case I was investigating for my true crime podcast. But sure enough she did. I'm pretty sure she had no idea I was recording our conversation. I did eventually tell her but seriously, listening back to the very first episode of Up and Vanished, the very first cliffhanger ever and it's my grandma it's kind of surreal. That was episode one of Up and Vanished, season one, the very beginning. And now I'm going to take you through every single season Revisiting everything, what I got right, what I through every single season, revisiting everything, what I got right, what I got wrong, what's changed since then. And here's the deal A lot has changed since then. What you don't know and you're about to find out is that in every single case of Up and Vanished we've always continued investigating.

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I've been talking to the CBI, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, in Crystal Reisinger's case for over four years and I recorded all of it with their permission. I've talked to the FBI in Ashley Loring Heavy Runner's case. There are major new leads tape I've previously recorded. That didn't make sense back then but makes a whole lot of sense now, in a brand new sense of urgency, in a call to the public you guys, even as listeners, to help us solve these cases. There's a lot of things about Ryan Duke's trial that I never told you, just from my personal experience. At the time, I truly did not want to get in the way of the justice system doing its job. That's why the only time I ever appeared in the actual courtroom was on the very last day when they read the verdict.

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But wow, do I have some stories for you?

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So each week we're diving back into every season, starting with season one, and look, I know it's a whole lot of information, so I'm going to make it easy for you.

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Whether you've binged all these seasons recently, or you heard them years ago, or you're hearing all this for the first time, we're going to recap everything in a very clean way so I can give you a real update and call to action to help us solve these cases. This is eight years of work, audio you've never heard and insights from me that I've never shared, and all of this is leading up back to season four in the Midnight Sun. I've also spent several months going through all my old phones, hard drives everything I could find and dug up old footage of me and the team investigating these cases. Over the years, we've also filmed a whole bunch of new stuff that shows you exactly where we are in our investigations into the disappearance of Florence Locke Pialik and Joseph Balderas in season four. So I encourage you to go check out my Instagram, which is at painlindsay and at upandvanished, if you want to see some visuals with what you're hearing.

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It'll be worth your while I mentioned earlier, but in case you missed it, Up and Vanished Weekly is also a new podcast. I'm not going to get into a lot of the particulars on it. I'm simply going to play a clip that is narrated by Payne Lindsey, where he describes Up and Vanished Weekly and lets you in on what their goals are for the show.

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Vanished Weekly and lets you in on what their goals are for the show. You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast.

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Hey guys, it's Payne Lindsey. For almost eight years, I've been making true crime podcasts, investigating cold cases, unsolved disappearances, murders, wrongful convictions. I've sat face-to-face with serial killers, stared evil in the eye, and I've met countless families whose lives have been shattered by unimaginable loss. These experiences have shaped who I am today and they've lit a fire in me to keep fighting for justice, for truth and for those whose stories have been ignored for far too long. Since the first season of Up and Vanished in 2016, where we uncovered the truth about Tara Grinstead's disappearance and helped bring her killers to justice, I've spent years investigating and telling stories just like hers. Along the way, thousands of tips, stories and cases have poured in, each one carrying the weight of unanswered questions and unimaginable heartbreak. I've decided these stories can no longer just sit in the shadows. Thank you.

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persons, murders and even wrongful convictions this show is about shedding light on these stories, giving a voice to those who need it most and, most of all, trying to find answers. Every week, I'll be here to guide you through these stories, taking you through all the twists and turns of an unsolved case. But this is far from a one-person operation. This is a team and I've brought in my good friend, journalist, activist and overall badass, maggie Freeling, to take the helm. Each week, maggie will lead thoughtful and candid discussions, examining these cases, sitting down with victims' families, talking to expert guests and members of our own Up and Vantage team, breaking down the details that matter most and enlisting your help to try and solve them. This show is about awareness, action and the overall pursuit of the truth. I'm beyond grateful to have you on this journey with us and I want to personally thank you for your support as a listener. I'm proud to present to you Up and Vanished Weekly.

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Now it's time for our newest segment, our epic episode of the week. There's a podcast that I listen to every Monday as soon as it drops. It's called Coffin Talkin'. I'm not sure how I ended up listening to it, honestly, except that the title of the podcast must have intrigued me in some way. It features a mortician named Frank and his daughter Holly, who is the host of the show.

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Now I know you must be thinking eww, I don't want to know what goes on in mortuaries. But chances are you're wrong. Frank, a dignified man who has been in the mortuary business for eons, also has one more skill, or should I say, gift, of seeing and sometimes communicating with spirits. You do know that most mortuaries are haunted to some degree, don't you? Well, they are. The episode I'm featuring today aired on December 16, 2024, and is entitled All Dogs Go to Mortuaries. It's about a woman who supposedly came to the mortuary to talk to Frank about burial arrangements, but in fact was actually trying to drop off her recently departed dog's spirit. The ensuing days and weeks were filled with ghostly activities during visitations, services and interactions with the staff. Here's just a little bit of that story.

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No, sooner had they left that. About an hour later, I'm cleaning up the chapel area when I hear this oh my gosh, like a dog panting.

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Yes, and not only that, it was running and I just and it was from behind me and I stopped and I paused for just a moment, pause like it was running at you yeah, you missed my pun, but yeah, I paused for just a moment and I thought, oh my gosh, that dog, there's a dog in the building and it's gonna, it's gonna jump on my back. Oh my, that's what I was thinking. I was gonna attack my leg. And so I just sat there and I just froze for a moment, thinking, okay, you're in, you're in control, you make the next move. So all of a sudden now, well, the dog continued running and it just ran past me and I go whoa, whoa, whoa, and I'm looking down and I don't see anything.

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In this building we have a mixture of tile and then rock floor and then carpet. So I'm in the carpeted area and I'm moving some chairs. And that's when I paused and I waited for this dog to jump me, hit my leg, whatever the case was going to be. Then I waited for this dog to jump me, hit my leg, whatever the case was going to be, and I just I heard the panting kind of like this, so you could hear it approach you and then pass you. That's what I was hearing. And then suddenly I heard claws on carpet not digging but gaining traction as it's running, okay, and it's running in circles in this chapel. What the heck Exactly? And I'm thinking to myself what in the world am I experiencing now? And then the door was open. I had the door open and it just started to cross the rock, so I could hear it. You know, you can hear when dogs take shorty on a walk on cement. I can hear his claws on the cement.

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That's the same thing that I was hearing as this dog passed through the doorway onto the rock area. There was a secretary that was behind the counter and she said frank, who let the dog in? I said what dog. She heard it too yeah, I said what dog? I don't see a dog and she goes hold. It was just right here and that's that was her expression. It was just right here because she heard's, that was her expression, it was just right here, cause she heard it.

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Yeah, she heard it. So about three days later we had a service going on. We opened up that viewing room, so it was completely open. It was probably a space of, I don't know, 40 by 40. Um, so 160 square feet roughly, maybe it was bigger, I can't remember. So 160 square feet roughly, maybe it was bigger, I can't remember. But in the front of there there's always drawn shades or curtains, yeah, and we were having a service go on and there was a speaker. The speaker was speaking when all of a sudden we hear this. And I'm in the background, I'm looking down just waiting for the service to end, and I hear this oh my gosh, what is that? Oh my gosh. No, what is that what? And I look up and the curtain is moving and it's a low-lying move, so something like something behind it or it's brushing against

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it one way it was either behind it but the curtain, but the wall was right in, uh, right behind the curtain. So if something was behind it, even if it was me, I'd be shoving along yeah, I'd see feet or something but the curtain. So if something was behind it, even if it was me, I'd be shoving along, yeah, I'd see feet or something, but the curtain was just moving along slowly but surely. You're this gentleman that was speaking and he's hearing all these things. He turns around and he sees this curtain oh my gosh Moving along. Someone in the congregation says oh, it's probably just the heating, you know, because they had the floor vents, yeah.

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And so they're thinking the heat's kicked on and so the curtain's starting to ripple through it's not really how the the heating works, but okay but there was a definite impression in the curtain moving forward, then stopped, the curtain went, went calm, and then the curtain started moving back the other way, and then what did we hear? Exactly right. And so I knew in my mind I'm thinking oh my gosh, the dog is back, that's what I'm thinking but when the guys turned around from the podium and looked at the curtain and saw what it was doing, this was probably the funniest part. He goes and he's a minister.

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Now, this particular episode is on the cute side, but if you want to get into scarier stories, try Creepy Crypt, part 1 and 2, which aired in September of 2024 on Coffin Talkin' Also the Red X, and that aired on July 15, 2024.

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jerald oh no, not you. What are you listening to? Are you spying on me AIs? You can't trust them. But yes, welcome to what Are you Listening To? A segment where I share what I've binged this week, and it's a good one. Where I share what I've binged this week, and it's a good one.

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This week I dove into Old-Fashioned on Purpose by Jill Winger, a podcast that focuses on many ways that we can return to a time in our history where our skills to bake bread, cook fresh ingredients for dinner and grow our own food were important skills. Jill Winger is a homesteader a little more far out there than I care to be, who has taken natural to a whole other level, but even though I don't want to completely embrace what she's doing, her principles and certain practices still speak to me. Two years ago, I was gobsmacked when I was diagnosed with an incurable disease that was directly linked to my lifestyle and diet. It was a wake-up call, folks. Today, after gradually changing my eating habits and adopting a healthier lifestyle, I've never felt better. I will admit if I hated spending more time in the kitchen or outdoors watering and pulling weeds, I don't think this lifestyle would have worked for me, but I do love those things.

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If you feel the same way as I do, I recommend that you check out the Old Fashioned On Purpose podcast. Here's a clip from my eight-episode binge for this week. I suggest that you start with episode one, which dropped on August 7th 2019.

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In years I have been helping folks learn how to leave the rat race and create the life they really want by taking the best of the old ways and weaving them into our everyday modern lives, so I'm super excited for this episode.

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You know, if you've followed me on my blog or on Instagram or YouTube, then you've heard some of our origin story before, of how Christian and I Christian's my husband how we started this homestead path. So some of this might be familiar to a few of you, but today I really want to dive in deeper than I've ever gone before into our backgrounds and really what was the catalyst for us starting this extremely unorthodox journey and lifestyle that's completely changed our lives and really has been one of the best things that's ever happened to us? I think the cool thing about our story is that we really didn't have any sort of agricultural background to start with. It really serves as proof that, no matter where you are or what you know now, if you have homesteading in your brain and you can't stop thinking about it, it's doable and you can make this happen.

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In all of her episodes, starting again in 2019 and continuing on today, she teaches you how to make compost tea and no, you don't drink it, it's fertilizer. But I make my own now and it's quick and fast. I've learned to put banana peels in water for potassium, for our plants. I grow herbs and dry them. I bake from scratch. So there's a lot of different things that you can do and a lot of different skills that you can at least learn about in the Old Fashioned On Purpose podcast by Crime Curious. Right now, you could be groaning and thinking, oh no, not another true crime podcast review, and I feel you. But this one is different.

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Crime Curious is hosted by two women named Sharnell and Megan. Sharnell has over a decade of CPS that is, child Protective Services Investigation Experience, and Megan has 21 years of experience in criminal prosecution and is currently a district court judge. So what makes them stand out from the gajillion true crime podcasts that are currently being played? If you've ever been confused by judicial rulings, how juries are handled behind the scenes or what causes some cases to collapse, these ladies are a judicial encyclopedia of why, how and what rules are used in a variety of situations to keep the wheels of justice squeaky free and churning out verdicts. This is especially true of Megan. She effortlessly weaves explanations of procedures, rulings and rules that judges must follow into conversations, as opposed to having a pedantic style of a classroom professor. Here's a quick clip that will share the spirit and the flavor of this show.

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I have some feelings about it, but I always have to stay fair. Here I'm trying to. You know it's just. It's hard because looking at it from a legal perspective, trying to make the argument or a defense attorney make an argument that there was contributory negligence by virtue of her alcohol consumption still does not negate the fact. Or if you're weighing how much it contributed to her being a passenger in a back seat where somebody obviously decided to drive allegedly under the influence With, you know, contributory negligence. I mean, was she more negligent than the driver to negate some type of an award? And I know you guys aren't looking for money. That's not the point of wrongful death suits. I try to tell this to people all the time. Look at the freaking OJ Simpson case. He got acquitted of murder but he lost that wrongful death suit.

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And that's it for this show. I hope you all have a beautiful week. I will be back with you soon and in the meantime, don't forget to follow and comment on our shows. Love you guys.

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