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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, lovelies, and welcome to One Good Thing Media, season 3, episode 7. For those of you who are new to our show, my name is Gerald Spear and I am the host and creator of our podcast. One Good Thing Media specializes in reviewing and recommending fantastic podcasts that are sure to enliven your playlist. Today, I'll be covering new podcasts and others that you won't want to miss. Just a sampling of this week's show there's one new science-based podcast that confirms what special ed teachers, parents and even some scientists have known for years about autism, how soap operas have found their niche in the podcast universe, why right and left are so important in the minds of certain podcast creators, and the return of an amazing podcast that has been on hiatus since 2023. Of course, there's so much more, so sit back, relax and let's spend some time together. This week's episode of One Good Thing Media is brought to you by who Gives a Crap. The greenest and most charitable bathroom tissue company on the planet WGAC, as we like to call it makes two types of eco-friendly brands one made from recycled paper and the other from bamboo recycled paper and the other from bamboo. Fyi, I purchased the bamboo tissue for my family because it's thick, soft and free of many of the unhealthy chemicals used to produce commercial brands. It arrives at your doorstep within days of ordering and helps you to help others who are living in underdeveloped countries to lead more sanitary, disease-free lives. You can become part of our WGAC family by clicking the link in our show notes which is right below the title of this episode. And now on with the show.

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Our next segment is all about news, updates and highlights. Are you a soap opera fan or do you know? People who are A lot of people must still be watching them, because the Bold and the Beautiful, the Young and the Restless and General Hospital are still airing on broadcast TV and Days of Our Lives is alive and well on Peacock. I'm going to be honest with you. I've never purposely watched a soap opera in my life, but I have been held hostage while they played on TV at someone else's home or in college dorms. I actually had a deja vu moment about a week ago when I went to the doctor for a wellness checkup. I was taken to a waiting area where a TV was airing a soap opera of all things, with no remote control in sight to turn it off. Speaking only for myself, there's something torturous about soap operas, but I also recognize that many people either love them or have fond memories of watching them with their mother or even friends and college roommates. So I wanted to let you know that soaps are also part of the podcast universe. In fact, there are multitudes of soap opera talk shows and even after shows where hosts and guests reminisce about their favorite soaps. Even the Soap Opera Digest that used to be displayed at every checkout counter has a podcast. Who knew? I didn't. If you want to get your soap opera fix by learning who's died and come back as their long-lost twin brother or who's seducting the neighborhood bombshell, go to Google and type in quote podcasts, soap operas, and dozens of podcast listings will pop up. Now, with that said, there is one that won't pop up when you do your search because, honestly, folks, it's a soap opera in disguise. It's called the Royals of Malibu, which is now in its third season.

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Season three begins with teenager and orphan Ella Sinclair's world being turned upside down after her deceased father suddenly reappears alive and well and only offers a vague explanation of why he didn't stay dead. It's billed as a romantic rags to riches saga but, honestly, the bubbling plot gives it away, deviating from my usual format, I am not gonna have a great episode to share with you today for our epic episode segment, but also the entire podcast. If you have a child, a friend or a relative who has been diagnosed with autism, you're part of a growing segment of our society. The Telepathy Tapes explores the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism, of non-speakers with autism individuals who have long been misunderstood and frequently underestimated In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy. The Telepathy Tapes explores the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism, individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. In fact, a growing number of scientists have found that some of these silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, including telepathy and other worldly perceptions. As the evidence mounts, the time has finally come to reveal what parents, educators and involved scientists say has been hiding in plain sight.

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Season 1 of the Telepathy Tapes is a limited 10-episode series that is now complete. Since its inception, the scope of the podcast has expanded to also include other non-speaking conditions, including Alzheimer's disease and even telepathic communications between humans and animals. This podcast is a rare blend of social and scientific information, making the entire series engaging to everyone who's interested in mental communications. I had to pick a single episode from the series to feature today, and I did, but it was hard to choose which one I liked the most. The Telepathy Tapes is a series of separate stories, with each one building the foundation for the next episode. That's why I recommend listening to this series from the beginning and also why I'm sharing just a little bit of Season 1, episode 1, unveiling the Hidden World of Telepathic Communication in a Silenced Community. The clip begins in the middle of the episode because I wanted to share one of the fascinating tests that was done with an autistic teenager who has an uncanny ability to communicate silently with her mother.

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Okay, it's testing day and there's a lot going on. Mia, her father, her mother and her cousin Sophia, who originally reached out, are all at the house, and so is a crew of about six people. The house is a mid-century ranch in Glendale. It's on a beautiful wide street with lots of lawns and trees. Because there's almost nothing in the cabinets, I make the assumption that the house is mostly used for Airbnb and film rentals. There's a large living room and that's where we've set up. We've removed almost all the furniture from the room except for a gray fabric couch where we will position Mia and her mother for the tests.

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Before we get going, I do a little meeting with the crew and Dr Powell. So just technically, like we have a camera here, this is going to be a wide shot on the family. This will be like a kind of a close-up that will row between the three of you. We need to make sure the GoPro can see over her shoulder so we can see the number, and sure the GoPro can see over her shoulder so we can see the number. And then, every time that you have your cue, I'll just bring a divider and put it between Ileana and Mia, the flashcards that I had the numbers only go up to 10, which that's not statistically probably that great. So we were talking about is using a random number generator. So, dr Powell, what numbers do you want to put in there?

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I would like to try three digit numbers, so there'll be numbers between 100 and 999.

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I'm putting all of this in here just to make sure people understand that the crew and myself went through great pains to make sure that there could be no cheating. We provided the iPad in this. I downloaded the number generator and we set up the parameters 100 to 999. There was always someone generating the cue that was given to Dr Powell, which then she would give to the parent.

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That's a reflective surface there the TV so we need to cover that.

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Okay.

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And there's a mirror there. And there's a mirror there.

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Yes, that's got to be covered up as well, or taken down, all right. So TV covered up and then that mirror is going to come down. And then, brian, maybe if you wanted to do like a 360 of the room really quick, I'm going to put all of this raw footage on the website, the telepathy tapes dot com. The crew myself and Dr Powell were meticulous about making sure this test was bulletproof. So there'll be a blindfold on Mia. The other thing we're gonna do is put a divider up every time that she sees the cue.

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So as far as blindfold goes, let me just try this on and see yeah, I can't, you can't see anything. Can't see anything, no.

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Hey, does anyone else want to try out this blindfold to make sure that you can't see anything?

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Sure.

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This is Michael. Can you see anything? Oh, no, no, it's a fist. All right, cool. That blindfold, by the way, is something called the Mindfold, which, as you now know, you can buy it on Amazon, and it is really intense and very dark. And I was so happy it was Michael who decided to try it on, in addition to Dr Powell, because, as I noted previously, he's my resident skeptic and had he not tried it on, I think he always would have been questioning about the efficacy of the tests.

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Just to set the scene here, dr Powell hit a random number into the random number generator. Then we asked her to hit it again and again, so we made sure it was super random. So we're going to go for this number, okay, and then show Michael's camera and then show Ileana, and Ileana stared at it for a while. There's a blindfold on Mia and she's on the other side of a partition from her mother. I got frustrated with myself when I rewatched this for injecting myself too much in this moment, because I was concerned that if Ileana didn't see the number for long enough, maybe the telepathy wouldn't work. Let her stare at it for just another second. The number that was generated was 698. Dr Powell has just shown all the cameras in the room and she shows Ileana. Dr Powell is putting the iPad face down. We're taking away the partition and Mia is going to take off her blindfold so she can type. Okay, all right, and she wants to take it off. Now she can. Se puede quitar, se puede quitar, I'm at 6. Mm-hmm.

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I'm at six, nine Eight.

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That was it Very good. So Mia got the number correct, but I was freaking out inside and I wanted to go again, and again, and again.

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And so they did it again and again, 20 times to be exact, and Mia typed out the numbers correctly all 20 times.

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My favorite test had to do with a book I brought from home, something she'd never seen, and to me this was just remarkable. So, ileana, close the book. What you see on screen is Ileana, who's got the book toward the camera, and Mia is facing the opposite direction. Okay, and then just open up to any page. When Ileana landed on a page, we'd ask Mia the page number and she would correctly state the page number that she'd flipped to. Sometimes we'd point to a word on a page that we just opened to and she would correctly spell out the word. We do this a few times with both Ileana opening up the book and some of the crew opening up the book. Now, with the number, the numeral on the page Say it with the number you have.

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What page do I have here? One, three, which one?

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Bravo, Mia.

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Very good, mia. One more, one more.

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In page 26,. Oh yeah, muy bien Mia. Uno más uno más One more. What is it?

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Oh, en la página 26, hay un personaje en la página 26. ¿me?

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puedes decir. Ileana was flipping through this book and again, it's a book I brought from home and there is a picture of a pirate on page 26. And so she stops there and gets excited and is asking Mia, what picture? Picture of a pirate on page 26? And so she stops there and gets excited and is asking Mia, what picture are we looking at on page 26.? Again, the book is facing clearly away from Mia. She cannot see it at all. She clearly types P-I-R-A-T-A, which spells pirate in Spanish. At this point everyone in the room had had their mind blown. If someone on the crew wasn't won over by the random flashcards or the random number generator or the popsicle stick test, they were by this book test.

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You can actually watch a video of this test and all tests that they conducted on that day on wwwTheTelepathyTapescom. I will warn you that, in order to watch the tests they conducted that day, as well as many other tests from other individuals, there is a one-time $10 membership fee.

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Gerald.

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Oh no, not you again. 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. Trigger warning the following segment of what Are you Listening To involves true crime and the death of a 19-year-old girl. This is not an explicit review.

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Armchair detectives are often the bane of police, but sometimes just sometimes they're the reason that crimes are solved. The my Friend Daisy podcast details one of those rare cases. In 2021, 19-year-old Daisy DeLao was excited about life. She was about to start a new job and fulfill her dreams of becoming a makeup artist and a tattoo artist. But, in a cruel twist of fate, her dreams were shattered one fateful night after receiving a text message while watching TV with her family, she told them she'd be right back and stepped outside. Tragically, it was the last time her family ever saw her alive. But as heart-wrenching as her murder was to everyone who loved her and the world around her, something extraordinary also came out of her cruel death.

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The police investigated but were unable to solve the case, and as new cases appeared that demanded their attention, it became unlikely that Daisy's murder would ever be solved, but her friends weren't about to give up. Who killed Daisy and what could they do to ensure their friend got the justice she deserved? While they were young and inexperienced, they were expert in one thing. In true Gen Z-er style, they turned to TikTok to solve Daisy's case. My Friend Daisy is a 10-part series by London Radio and iHeart Radio and is produced by Paris Hilton. I binged all six available episodes and I'm waiting with bated breath to finish this story. Here's a clip from the show.

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If you're anything like me, you probably think of TikTok as a place for cute pet videos. Get ready with me's and viral dance trends. But a few years ago, a group of teenage girls used TikTok for an entirely different and utterly heartbreaking reason To track down their friend Daisy's killer.

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I didn't find out about her death until I saw it on TikTok.

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And I was just like shocked. I was like, nah, like it's a lie. You know it's a lie.

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They put out something on social media so, and they put out my cell number so I'd get calls in the middle of the night all the time, seen him everywhere. He's here, he's there, he's here, he's there. And the crazy thing is it worked. I get a phone call from our office that wanted to transfer a phone call to me, some comandante from some police in Mexico. That's when it kind of clicked oh man, I'm Paris Hilton, executive producer of my Friend Daisy, a gripping new true crime podcast that uncovers the shocking murder of 19-year-old Daisy DeLo and the teenage detectives who refused to let her case go cold.

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I started investing my time to, you know, get her justice. It's like, how do you think you're going to get away with?

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something like this, like you killed somebody. Our host journalist, jen Swan, spent years digging into this story the secrets, the suspects and the system that failed Daisy. This is more than just a murder case.

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It's a story about justice, resilience and the power of a viral movement that sparked an international manhunt. I was hooked on my Friend Daisy after the first minute of the first episode of this show and since no doubt you are a podcast junkie, just like I am after all, why else would you be listening to this show and share my penchant for binging? Make sure to have a little time on your hands when you tune into my Friend Daisy. And now it's time for two more podcast reviews. The first one is called A Conduit's Diary.

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I was absolutely inconsolable when A Conduit's Diary went silent in November 2023. It was supposed to be a hiatus, so I was prepared for a break. So I waited, checked back on the podcast, waited some more, checked back on the podcast and then finally, about a year later, I gave up. But then in January because thankfully I had it on a notification that during the coldest month of the year, I swear, the clouds parted and a warm ray of sunshine broke through. Well, you know, metaphorically speaking, a conduit's diary returned without missing a beat and once again returned without missing a beat and once again, all was well in the podverse. Just for clarification before we get going, a psychic conduit is someone who acts as a channel or a bridge to connect the living with spirits. Or, in the case of A Conduit's Diary, it also includes ghosts, demons, ghouls and other creepy things that haven't been given a name yet.

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The show is lighthearted, personable and over a time you get well acquainted with our Conduit's family, friends, allies and foes. Rachel, who's the conduit and heroine of this podcast, takes us along as she goes about her work by making short work of spirits that are haunting people's homes, as well as in a variety of other fantastical and humorous situations. Along the way, rachel shares her insecurities. Along the way, rachel shares her insecurities, social shyness and her work at an area rescue center for animals. When you check out A Conduit's Diary, I suggest you start with Episode 1, season 1, and listen chronologically as Rachel's quirks, her minimalist ambitions and inherited abilities play out in outrageous situations.

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Here is a clip from A Conduit's Diary. Trigger warning there may be some cussing in this clip. Rachel tends to let him fly every now and then, so you have been warned. Each episode of A Conduit's Diary has some type of case that Rachel is working on or an encounter. This one begins with an early morning shopping trip to the market and ends up being a lesson on the proper way to handle chain mail, and I'm not talking about the type you wear, I'm talking about the ones you receive. Send this to four people, or something bad's going to happen to you, or send it to 20 of your best friends, and you will receive a bundle of money within three days.

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The child was pale, with long, sandy blonde hair that looked like it'd never been brushed and a dirty pair of pants. Her back was always toward me, so I never saw her face. In fact, the more I looked, the more I couldn't really understand what I was looking at. The child wasn't just dirty, she had no shoes on. Now, I'm by no means a nosy person. I like a bit of gossip if it doesn't involve me, but otherwise I try to stay out of the business of others. I didn't want to try to corner the woman in a store and ask her what was going on. Maybe I could catch the eye of a store clerk to intervene. I didn't even know where to start. I was considering pulling the girl aside to ask if she was okay when I realized I was staring again. We were in line to check out at the register. The woman and girl were in front of me. My gaze was focused on the back of the girl's head, frowning as I stared intently at her. The woman finished putting her items on the conveyor and turned to look at me and let out a gasp. I realized then that I was staring and averted my eyes to the ceiling instead. Shit, this was awkward. Fortunately the woman didn't bring it up. She paid and hurried out of the store the little girl close at her heels. That was weird, I told the cashier. She grunted some response, not looking nearly as worried as I was. They probably saw all sorts of weird shit.

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I was loading up my car when a woman stepped in front of me, her arms crossed over her chest. Who are you? She barked. I blinked and looked around as if she could be talking to anyone else. Uh, rachel, who are you, jenna? She said, her gaze steady on me. Look, I don't want to cause trouble, I just.

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I was trying to figure out if she's your daughter or sister and why isn't she wearing shoes. I was rambling. I realized, and my rambling racketed up as Jenna's face transformed into shock. You're right, it's none of my business. I was just curious because she's not really dressed for this weather. You're right, none of my. You can see her, she breathed. My eyes darted down to the little girl behind her. Now that she was standing closer, I could see her face and I realized my mistake. This was not a child. This was something entirely different. My eyes darting back to jenna. See who? I asked weakly. Jenna shook her head, her arms uncrossing. You're shitting me. You are absolutely r Rachel. You said oh Rachel, we're gonna have a talk. Jenna, at least let me unload my groceries before I went to her house. She wanted to come to my house, but I told her absolutely not. I wasn't about to bring a client there, much less whatever the fuck creepy thing was following her around.

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Apparently, jenna did not follow the directions on the chain mail, and it makes me wonder just how many of whatever that was are following me around too. I don't believe I've ever forwarded a chain mail. Am I in trouble? Mail, am I in trouble?

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My last review for today is the Left Right Game. It's a horror fiction show created by Q-Code that follows a journalist named Alice Sharman as she investigates a paranormal game that leads to an alternate reality. She is attracted to the game, almost as if she's going on a lark, but that quickly changes as it becomes a real game of survival. Who will make it through and who will not? When I first listened to this podcast, my imagination was wrapped around my headphones, and when I listened to it again a few months later, all the nuances that I had missed became significant details that enriched the storyline. The Left Right Game is actually a legendary show in the podcast horror genre. If you haven't listened to it yet, you are in for a ride is actually a legendary show in the podcast horror genre. If you haven't listened to it yet, you are in for a ride, and if you have, you can enrich your experience by doing what I did and listen to it a second time. Here's a clip to whet your appetite for this fascinating show.

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The game appeared on a paranormal message board with very simple rules. Get in your car and take a drive. Take a left, then the next possible road on the right, then the next possible left. Repeat process at infinitum.

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There's a hitchhiker on the road, you pick him up, you take him where he needs to go, but you do not, under any circumstance, do not, talk to him Ever.

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What the hell are we heading into?

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I have no idea.

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Look, I ain't asking you to believe me, but I told you this street, this is your last chance. As ridiculous as it might sound, I think my friend may have documented her own disappearance. If you know anyone involved in this story, any of the locations mentioned, anything I can use to get in touch with Alice, please don't hesitate to contact me. Were you in the area on February, the 7th of this year? Did you meet or speak with a girl called Alice Sharman?

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Has anyone heard of the left-right game, and that's a wrap for this week. I hope everybody enjoyed listening to the show as much as I did sharing it. I hope all of you have a beautiful week, but in the meantime, please give us a follow and, if your heart so desires, a five-star rating. It's easy to do and it means the world to us. You know we love you. See you next week.

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One Good Thing Media is brought to you by our host and creator, Gerald Spear. All things technical are by David Dodd and our announcer is Robert Spear. Our theme song is Force by HGST. Thank you,