I'm so glad you're joining us the day after Resurrection Sunday. I hope you had a wonderful time with your loved ones going to church, or if you were like Tom, maybe you stayed home. Ah, yeah, she's telling on me. I'm so glad you're joining us for home today. Amanda's off today. Sorry, but I think it's, I think it was wonderful how you got to such a time, you and Gene. You know, there's some people that only go on church at Christmas. We're like the opposite. We skip on church at Christmas a lot. Family's coming over, got a lot of preparations to do, but we went on Friday night, our Friday night church. So there you go. It counts. You were worshiping at home. It's all good stuff. That's right. That's right. Well, we're so glad you're with us. We have a great guest coming up.  But you know what we've told our kids that too. But she's written something Laura has called the Go and Tell Storybook. There's 30 Bible stories about showing how we should share about Jesus. And I love this so much because it's about how we can train our children to go and tell others about Jesus. I love that. I think a lot of books miss it. It spends a lot of time in the Book of Acts, but it's all about telling others the great story. And I know the Book of Acts. Isn't that one of your favorite books in the Bible? Oh, it's one of my favorites. I love it because it's where we live. It's where we're supposed to live as Christians in this empowerment of the Holy Spirit, sharing the good news, and that's our commission. That's what we're called to do. I want to ask you, Tom, because I know you and Jeanne have grandchildren, so have you had opportunities to share about Jesus with them? Well, we certainly do. We, you know, want to respect the parents, but we don't have any trouble talking about the Lord with them, you know? And, you know, they're all, you know, at different areas, but we make sure they know who Christmas is about and things like that. That's awesome. Because I know it's like Tom and Jeanne's heart is like they love their children and their grandchildren, and we hope grandparents out there, we just want to say thank you for all the love, all the baskets that you bring. It reminds me this time of year of my mom. Like, she always made sure that I understood it wasn't about the Easter Bunny, it wasn't about the eggs, but I always had a chocolate cross. I didn't get a chocolate cross this year, mom, but it's all good. You know what? I mean, since the kids actually went to the in-laws, so they weren't there, so that just meant more jelly beans for me. More jelly beans for Tom. It's all good. Well, we're going to have a little dive into something fun that we like to do here, and I hope you play along. It's called Stump the Host. Okay, these are all resurrection themes, so play along with us here. Here's the first question. And we haven't heard these, so you've got to answer just like us. Who was the first person to see Jesus's empty tomb? Tom, this is all you. I'm drawing it completely blank. I was going to say Mary. It's like, I knew it's one of the women, right? It's one of the women. We've got to say Mary. Mary. Mary is good. Oh, yeah. Yeah, all right, all right. Mary Magdalene, so that's from John 20. See, now we say Mary, there's like seven people. I know. Here's question number two. When Jesus first appeared unto his disciples, which disciple was not among them? You think I might know this one? Thomas. Thomas wasn't among them. Okay, we're going to go with Thomas. Your namesake. Thomas. That's from John. He was just messing up all over the place. Sounds familiar. Well, yeah. You know, he said that I won't believe until I put my finger into his wounds. Yeah. So anyway, good old Thomas. Stoutin' all the time. Jesus foretold of his resurrection by using the example of what prophet? Wait a minute. Jonah. Let's go with Jonah. Let's go with Jonah. For three. You were on it today. You get all the sparkly glitter, all the glitter. Can we have more glitter? Because it's resurrection. Larry. Oh my God. Call for glitter. We called for glitter. Does that work? Wait a second. Let me try that. Can I have glitter? Could you give me glitter? See, it doesn't work. Oh my God. We all would like that. That's like one of our favorites. Yeah, I know. Now we can call for it. We're making Larry crazy up there. Well, hey, it's important for us to share this good news. It is. It is joyous news. It is a good news of Jesus and his resurrection. It's especially important that we share about Jesus with our children and our guest today, Laura Richie, is a best selling children's author and in her newest release, the Go and Tell Storybook, she shares 30 Bible stories that will inspire children and their families to go and tell the story of Jesus. Laura, welcome to Hope Today. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here with you guys. So again, I do love this theme. I know you've written other books, but this one what what prompted you to write about the Book of Acts? Yeah, so this third book kind of picks up where the second book in the series the Easter storybook left off and That book ended with Jesus ascending to the Father and I feel like as a kid I kind of felt like that was the end of the story a little bit It was a happy ending and you know, then I just I didn't really realize that you know His his resurrection and his ascension didn't mean that he was done With doing all that he was doing an axe shows us that God's spirit came and empowered Jesus's friends to Continue all of the good things that Jesus was doing to continue the rescue And so that's what that's really my goal with this book is to show how you know God's spirit came and continued the rescue and I also like kids to understand that We too are a part of this story and we too get to share this good news that Jesus is our rescuer Who's making all things good and new again? Well, the book is fantastic. I mean, it's beautifully done and As I was looking at it it it seems to me that it could either be read by parents to their children or us Somewhat older kids could read it themselves and learn a lot I mean, there's a lot of you didn't shy away didn't you didn't like for lack of better term dumb it down or make it too Too young. There's a lot of good meat in there Yes, yeah, I feel like most families are gonna read it together I really wrote it so that four to eight year olds could understand it that's kind of the age of my kids and I really wanted to use you know, symptom structure and vocabulary that that age can understand but I know families With even younger kids and sometimes with teenagers, you know like to read it all together But you're totally right that the older child could read it just to themselves or to the younger siblings as well Yeah, and you know tell me about Your illustrator there. They're just amazing. In fact, we have a few shots of the the book You know that are just just fantastic. There's one of You know, I love I mean look how beautiful they are. There's one of Peter I've never seen a representation of that one there where Peter's having the vision of the animals being led down You know unclean animals led down on a sheet the pigs kind of looking over the sheet there a little bit But and you know Peter says I won't eat eat that Lord, but again the Lord saying don't declare unclean what I've called clean and I mean that's a Just tell us about the illustrations and how they came about Sure. Yeah, Ian Dale is the illustrator and he does an amazing job as you can see All of the illustrations are very detailed and they're colorful and they're realistic And they're so good at pulling kids into the story, especially this age group All of his characters are unique. They all have very realistic facial expressions And I love that they all look like they're from their country of origin. He's very Very careful to show Jewish people looking like they're Jewish Characters that are from Africa look like they're from Africa. So I love that aspect. He makes sure that there's a lot of just Diversity and that it's historically accurate as well Laura love how you're displaying the diversity. It's just so beautiful seeing the illustrations in those pictures We just want to ask, you know, is there a favorite story that you love sharing with your children? Yes, my son the first time we read The story about the angel getting Peter out of prison, you know that the his friends were so scared for him and They're praying and they're praying and there was no way that he could escape And then an angel comes in the middle of the night and you know Peter's chain in between two soldiers and I love that illustration Within my son my five-year-old when we were reading that the first time and You know the door opens for Peter just the angel just opens it And he just walks through but he doesn't really know what's going on and then he makes it to Mary's house and he's knocking on the door and Nobody's coming and then finally Rhoda comes And she recognizes his voice, but she's still excited that she forgets to let him in And then she runs back and nobody believes her and my son was just cracking up at that story He loved that story and we had to read it. I think three times in a row that first time And so that was his favorite for sure That's a great story. I love the when kids find the little bits of humor here and there In the scriptures. Let me ask you you grew up as a missionary kid. Okay, so your parents were out there Fulfilling the Great Commission. Tell us about your heart in writing about our commission in the book of Acts You know to go into all the world and preach the gospel and How how did you come to that and and what has been the result of you? Just sharing these stories with your children and with others Yeah, so I even before becoming a missionary kid. I was always in church Pretty sure it was three times every week. We were in church. And so I knew a lot of the Bible I knew a lot of the stories and I thought That I knew who God was But you know, I really didn't It wasn't until my mid-20s that I kind of realized that I saw the Bible as just a book that had a lot of rules and If I was honest, I saw God as a task master who expected me to follow all of these rules And I tried so hard to follow all of them and to make him happy I wanted to go to heaven and I didn't want him to be mad at me But you know, all of those years of striving Finally in my mid-20s when I had two little babies of my own. I just reached the point of Kind of realizing that I couldn't keep doing this anymore I couldn't keep trying to do all the right things and not do all the bad things I was just too tired and you know, I knew that all the rules boiled down to loving God and loving others And when I had my two little babies I realized that I couldn't even love them perfectly much less my neighbor and you know when it came down to it I didn't actually love God. I was scared of him So I remember one evening very distinctly and I just went into my living room And I just broke down into tears and I just decided I can't do this anymore and I told God I'm not I'm not gonna keep trying to do this and it was terrifying It it felt like stepping off of a cliff blindfolded But instead of sensing God's anger at me, I felt peace for probably the first time and I Saw Jesus for who he was for the first time and he knew that I could not follow all of those rules And he wasn't expecting me to that's why he came and so I discovered Jesus as being my rescuer and That is really the beginning of my journey of writing because I didn't want my children to grow up in church like I did and Completely miss out on knowing who God really is and seeing his beauty and his grace and seeing him as the rescuer And so that's what all of the books are about It's just me trying to help my kids and any other child who reads this, you know read these books Realize how good God is and how he loves us and how he came to rescue us Laura just love what you shared with your story so much about understanding Jesus as our rescuer He's our redeemer. He's our deliverer and you know right now in our culture and our time There are so many parents or so many grandparents that are so concerned about the state of our children growing up in this world So what would you say and what any advice would you give in wisdom to those parents and those grandparents that have young ones to Make sure that they know that children know that Jesus is our rescuer. What things can they implement today in their home? I Think you know one of the biggest things is Trying to make sure that Isn't it always about following the rules? Because a lot of that was my personality I tend to be a perfectionist But I know that that is the message that a lot of kids get and so trying to emphasize that Yes, there are rules and they are there to keep us safe But nobody's gonna be able to follow them perfectly, you know, that's why Jesus came So that's a big thing and then I think just being consistent and having conversations with your kids and making that just a natural part of your life the other two books and the series are the Advent story book and the Easter story book and those are Designed to be read every advent You know before Christmas and then the 40 days before Easter the season of Lent And so if you are picking up books like these books or other ones It makes it a lot easier for that those conversations and those stories just to be a part of your life as a family and Just something that you naturally talk about I also have questions at the end of each story and that's a really good kind of jumping point for You know having these conversations that really matter and just making it more natural and not awkward and in light of that at the end of every Every chapter you have a question or a couple of questions In fact like here's one It says what good things did God do through Paul and Barnabas? So that's just one of them, but there's one in every story So tell me about that why you put that there and how's that really helped the parents to share with their children? Yeah, I feel like the questions are a big part of what has made these books So meaningful for a lot of families because you know the each story is just one page long It only takes three to five minutes to read it. So it's easy to fit in even for your younger kids Just one quick daily story This book the go and tell storybook isn't associated with the holiday But it has 30 stories so you can pick just any month of the year that works best for you And have just a quick, you know daily Bible reading time just a family time But then the question at the end helps you engage your kids and it really helps pull out their thoughts And it helps you understand, you know, what their perspective is and what they learned and it's just fun to have You know some of the conversations that you can with those questions You know, I really love you sharing your story I grew up in the church and I can remember those same kind of feelings of like Is God accepting me as a teenager? You know am I doing what I'm I know is that is that and it's hard to serve?  Yes Really, you know, I feel like whenever I became a mom That's when I reached the end of my rope and Realizing that these little babies need me and I can't do enough for them And I'm going to make mistakes and just that whole Struggling with that was really, you know, what prompted me to finally realize who God is But yeah, the just the love that I have for my kids That's all God sees me and in a such bigger way, you know in each one of us And I never understood that before Yeah, that thank you for just Sharing and being willing to be vulnerable. I know that that's that's the thing, isn't it?  They just have to be there. So if you think you can make it through could you pray for our Audience and someone watching that maybe have never they've never seen God that way all they've known is maybe religion all They've if they've known even that and all they've known is is just that that harshness or that strictness and Could you just pray for someone watching? Well, I thank you so much for the opportunity to be here and thank you for Loving us. I ask that anyone Who has doubted? doubted who you are or Not felt that love like me for so many years I ask that you would just open their eyes to see who you are and that they would see You and all of your beauty and your glory and your love and that you would just surround them with your arms and that they would know that you are such a good father and you want them to come close to you and Father, thank you that we all have the hope that you are going to make all things good and new and death will be no more and Suffering and pain will be no more and you are going to do that and please just help us to trust you and to rest in That and keep walking forward even when it's difficult. Thank you Yes, that's such a powerful moment. Thank you Laura so much for being with us today The book is called the go and tell story book 30 Bible stories showing why we should share about Jesus by Laura Richie Laura again. Thank you so much. Thank you for writing the book and thank you for sharing your heart today Thank you so much for having me Well, it's a powerful thing and when we get a right view of God We begin to see our lives in the right way as well So we're gonna take a quick break but stay with us. 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We just concluded a great conversation with Laura and and just an incredible amount of heartfelt truth that she was sharing with us and this scripture goes right along with that it's third John chapter 1 verse 4 it says this I Could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth Sidney John is talking about his spiritual children here. I know this feeling though from a parent standpoint Mostly that's where it hits me most is What what could be greater? What could be more important than my children the ones that were around me all the time the following the truth Following after the truth Andrew just posted something about walking his bike on Saturday You got a flat tire and he's walking his bike past this chapel and he got to hear the singing the celebration of Easter and and it just it blessed him he said it was worth the flat tire, you know So biker so do not like to get a flat tire So I like that so much and I just thinking about like when we just wrapping up our conversation with Laura and thinking about like I could have no greater joy than to hear my that my children are following the truth It's the truth of his love and how often how we misinterpreted that truth or we misconstrued it Or we feel like we're so we can be so wrapped up in religion just reminds me of when we're celebrating Resurrection Sunday Bishop clay at Petrona National Ministry shared this like really powerful word about how it is so important for us to Recognize and to understand how much God loves us and he actually did his sermon was in the Old Testament with Hosea and Gomorrah and that whole situation but how Gomorrah is a picture of us that we go after so many different lovers But Hosea that God called Hosea to go back and love his wife again and no matter how far we stray away No matter how many mistakes we made how many times we've dropped it and we've messed up because we've all have fallen short We've all had these moments isn't it amazing that God simply wants us to know that through his son, Yeshua That through the power of the Holy Spirit for us to understand to experience that love And there's something when you experience the love of God when you encounter the love of God It just changes you and your eyes begin to like brighten and you see life through such a different lens Tom What does that speak to you? Well, so much of this speaks to the idea of relationship You know we are called religious people say well you're religious, you know And I think to myself that's about as far from what I think I have with God as I can get Because religion is about the rules and it's about doing the things that you think will earn you the right place with God But that relation could you would you say? I'm religious towards my kids. No, we're not really I'm not religious I my kid when they were little if they fell down skinned their knee I would pick them up. I would rescue them I would pull them out of a Difficult situation and pull them to myself and that's what God has done for me and you It's not about keeping the rules. Yes, there are rules and there are Commands in the Bible and yes, they're good and right and perfect and we should keep them But we cannot be perfect and we cannot Ever be good enough the Bible is so clear that we cannot ever be good enough to earn our way to God Thankfully my kids didn't have to earn their way into my heart. They were just there and We don't have to earn our way to God. All we have to do is respond to him. That's all just respond to him Peter when he was drowning. He said Lord save me and he reached out his hand and Jesus reached down and grab it Peter doesn't reach out his hand then he doesn't get saved So that's the key here is God loves you so much and has such an incredible Passion for relationship for you. All you need to do is reach up And I love that God has hands You know that he pulls us out of that situation and pulls us out whatever going through and you know The most beautiful thing is when you receive Christ like one scripture That's always said in me is that like, you know, we have that same Resurrection power in us that when Jesus died and he rose again and we're celebrating that we're walking this new life with Christ We were empowered by the Holy Spirit that that same resurrection power that raised Jesus from the dead Guess what? That's in me and that's in you So grab hold of that today no matter what the situation looks like no matter if it's a relationship or your children or your marriage You're a family of their condition the world. We know that there's such great power Resurrection power that God he can breathe new life on dead things again. 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If you were to call a girl angel face She'd have to be a beautiful girl a girl as beautiful and lonely as Dolores Caught doing a job. She didn't especially care anything about Waiting for the chance to get away from it all With the boy she loved Creeps this is T4 why? Opening the doors to the mystery Playhouse Tonight we bring you a modern horror story Complete with chills and frightening situations It's called angel face and it was written by mr. Walter Wilson I felt it was worth bothering with even though mr.  Yes, sir. I know she's waiting for you. All right the corner table. You're late tonight, mr. Wrangler. Yes, I know. Thank you Hey, you are Dolores, I Sorry, I'm late. I Gosh Dolores, you look lovely Joe Yeah, I'm getting so I Can't think about anything but you All day at the bank. I keep wishing it was time to get off so I could see Joe you sweet I think about you all the time, too.  Oh, you are Delores You've got a face just like an angel. He's a such pretty Sometimes I was want to cry he's a such pretty thing Three weeks ago. We didn't even know each other But we were meant to meet We were meant to stay together, too. You and I were always and We can't let anything interfere and spoil things for us ever You think that too. Don't you Dolores? Tell me you think that Joe darling. What's the matter? Of course. Nothing's gonna spoil things for it.  I love you. I Love you like I never loved anyone before You're the first person who's ever been really kind to me. I Know something tell me Joe. Maybe I couldn't help but tell me It hurts no one is something wrong and me not knowing what it is so I could help Is it Something at the bank Joe, it's not something at the bank. Dolores is it well Joe was going to put it back I I just needed some money quick, but what for what was it? It was important It was the first important thing that ever happened to me Dolores. I Couldn't let it slip away Joe Joe do you mean to say you did it for me? All that money you've been spending on me taking me to expensive places like this that that was don't don't you see Just see I was afraid I'd lose you I have a little money saved up not much of course, but some take it and put the money back if it's enough How much was it you do that for me? Oh No, no, it's too late for that It was only four or five hundred, but the auditors will catch up to me in a day or two, and then it'll be all up They they came unexpectedly It's no use to learn we can't do this Joe Look, we'll run away. We'll go somewhere with they'll never find us. They can't do this to it You don't know what you're letting yourself in for Delores. I don't care wherever you go. I'll go with you You won't be afraid not with you Joe. I won't be afraid of anything, but Joe hold my hand Hold it tight Don't I'll be all right Joe We'll make out won't we Joe I said it don't or is it it's It's going to take money to get away You can have everything I've got Joe and I can hug that bracelet you gave me and they're gonna be after me anyway What do you mean? well a Lot of money would help There's an old saying you might as well hang for a sheep Joe look They don't suspect anything yet, but I've got to work fast If if I could lay my hands on some real money say Say 20,000 no Joe.  Will you will you darling? I told you I'd do anything Whatever we have to do. I'm sticking with you Joe What can I do for you, please are you a locksmith? Yes? Yes, you want some keys made perhaps? No, I uh, I want you to do a job for me a Sort of a special job. Well, why not? I'll make it worth your while See you here. Here's the address. It's right right in the neighborhood. Let me see Miss Dolores still apartment 11 e 201 bed fridge. Yeah, I Don't know about this. I'll have to explain it to you when we get there Well, if it's a lock I can fix I told you I'd make it worth your while Well, I'd have to charge you for it a special job like this and leaving my shop. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's do oh Sure, mr. Sure. Yeah for this I can fit Sure worried so every minute I think it's all right Nobody noticed a thing. They won't know till they balance the books tomorrow night But at time we'll Will be a long way away. They won't think anything tomorrow morning when you don't show up for work I I told one of the boys I was going to the races and he's gonna tell him my phone didn't and said I was sick That'll give me a good start on sure it will It'll work out. All right, you'll see.  It can't it just can't cause nothing will happen to me I I only meant just in case no No, I don't want the key If anything happened to you, I wouldn't want the money. What good would it do me? The only reason we've got it is so you and I can have a chance at living and belonging to each other Maybe we're doing wrong. I don't know. I guess people would say it's wrong Only it's the only way we have a chance of being together and that couldn't be wrong Could it no? No, you and me. That's the rightest thing in the world Gotta get going in a minute Just let me kiss you. I Joe Joey you're trembling. I know I know it'll pass Just my nerves. It'll pass off in a minute here. Take a little brandy. It'll fix you up. Here you are Thanks. Guess I need it You're not having any no, you know, I never could drink brandy Well, oh, that feels good What I needed all right sure Joe just what you need Funny all of a sudden what's the matter Joe? I Feel so Joe Joe the coast is clear All set sure Did he fall for it to Laura's of course he fell for it Sucker out like a light nice girl, baby. It was the same you sure can handle them Well, come on kid. We got way to do don't I even ready to kiss? Oh sure sure, baby I was just thinking maybe we ought that all you like that didn't you yeah You still love your little Delores, don't you? But you couldn't get along without her now. Good job. Oh sure. Sure. You know, I love you Delores knows her little boy loves it He just wants to be sure that's all And I would never think of leaving it little Delores now would it That wouldn't be a wise thing to do at all What is I take it easy Dolores? What's eating you? You know me sure? I know you well We've been around a lot together you and me It isn't as if this was our first job. Okay. Okay. Oh This one was a cinch. He fell for it even harder than that guy in Chicago No, Tom Stevens don't use names like that Someday you'll say something in the wrong place relax out. Everything's hunky. Don't yeah, I know what are you worrying about Tom Stevens for? They're still looking for him and the payroll he made off with Tom's been six feet under for nearly a year now and even if somebody does dig up that Tom was kind of nice He always used to call me Angel face remember angel face Cripes. What's the matter with angel face? Come on now. I'll don't look so sour. We just made 20 grand. I feel swell Come to think of it. I feel kind of hungry Hungry sure hungry. I'll rustle up something in the kitchen. I couldn't eat a thing. Come on now That's no way to talk. We got a job to do tonight You got to keep up your strength Yeah, well look let's get that guy out of the way before somebody walks in no one's gonna walk in and him He's out cold for a good four hours Well, oh Okay, okay, let's dump him in the trunk. I'll give you a hand. Yeah, let's get this thing over with Wonder why they always seem to waste so much more when they're out this way. I don't know I'm not supposed we get going. What's your hurry? I told you I was hungry Come on out to the kitchen.  All right. All right.  Will you come along? We'll look in the icebox Maybe I can find you a chicken heart Another red light get easy. Oh, we're not trying to catch a train. Yeah. Well, I don't like it Maybe somebody saw us. Maybe maybe somebody will stop us or something sure maybe this maybe that maybe anything Maybe we wouldn't have a thin dime between us if I listen to you squawking all the time. Go ahead. You got the green Okay, okay, just feel better when we get rid of this load.  We haven't got such a hot load. Oh, yeah, we could face a murder rap and you say it isn't hot Not on this trip out not on the way out The guys alive still ain't Of course, I admitted to take some fast talking to explain why we got him in a trunk But if someone was to stop us his very minute and found him there wouldn't be no murder rat. He's alive So just relax now We got no worry. Take the truck. All right. Here. We'll drag it over Tell you I'll be glad to see the last that's heavy Let's shove it down. No, no, wait a minute. What's for I I just want to see if I can hear him breathe in Hear anything No No, not a thing You suppose now you couldn't hear things with the trunk anyway. He's just out cold from that drink I gave Open it up if you want to see no, no, all right, then. What are we waiting for? Here help me give it a shove Okay, shovel the dirt back in take your shovel and get to work Now what do you just stand in there for you think you think he can he comes to down there under the ground and And there isn't any end and But he said the air is going and And it's all over Even before he comes to give me that shovel Yeah, top's covered over you can hardly see any of the trunk now. Yeah, you can finish it Take the shovel I'll well, that's over with 20,000 now 20,000 cash. Yeah, I guess we can use it. All right, you're darned doing weekend and there's more where that came from What do you mean? If the guy's dead, how he wasn't the last sucker alive There's plenty more way he came. No, don't don't you think we ought to lay low for a while? We don't want to take no chances. We got enough to last us for a while now taking any chances Don't want to ever pin anything on us. Yeah, but I still think it wouldn't do no harm to kind of lay low for a while after this job You'll never change What do you mean?    Yeah, well at least I didn't have no murder wraps hanging off me till I met you I can thank you for that of all the ungrateful low dump pick you up practically out of a gutter and make a man of I cut you in on some big-time stuff, and that's the gratitude I get just let me tell you one thing pretty boy I'm Dolores. Yes I'm sorry Dolores.  See I I say things. I don't mean Well better. Yeah, it's just my nerves. I Got to thinking about About the guy in that truck in the cops six feet underground Why should you worry about? Joe wasn't exactly a friend of yours After the way he made love to me you'd hardly call him a friend Well, I didn't like that part of it either The way he used to make love to me Dolores it say you got a face like an angel. He said he thought they never could be anyone like he had something there He used to say he could never live without me.  I told you I didn't like that part of it. Didn't I?  Yeah, you'll have your little Dolores all to yourself You'll like that. Won't you? We got 20 grand and Dolores is gonna buy her pretty boy a nice press. We'll be home and we'll be all alone Just Allen Home again. Yeah No, don't turn on the light for a minute. Just kiss me right you can turn on the light now Good evening Dolores. Why are you taking easy out? Can't you see he's got a gun. You're supposed to be dead. Why don't you two sit down? You're both a little overwrought Now there We are I think we've got a few things to talk over but calmly That's why I've got this gun so we can talk things over calmly.  You'd like a spot of brandy Probably chilly from your little expedition Grave digging is so depressing. Don't you think? I don't worry The brandy was not poison. I Saw to that this morning How'd you get out? The trunk was locked. I thought it would be That's why I saw a locksmith this morning when you were out and had it fixed so it could be unlocked from the inside You see I made a few plans too Like putting those weights in the trunk to take my place and you got out of the trunk while we were in the kitchen.   Oh that huh? Well, you see Yeah, I don't work in a bank. What where'd you get that cash belong to me and You and I didn't meet by chance to Laura's I Waited a long time to meet you Yeah, I Looked for you a long long car What did you want to meet me for? Because I want to see you in this punk of yours hang for the murder of Tom Stevens in Chicago How'd you know about let them talk let them talk Doesn't make any difference now I've got all the evidence. I need it all fits together Okay, so we did bump off Stevens, but it's still just your word against us now What's your word? Your words verbatim.  Why you stay right there? Now that's better Now I've got a call to make the police remember I've still got you covered. Oh You wanted to know where I got the money the 20,000 you thought I'd taken from the bank I told you was mine it is and quite legally the paid claim of a life insurance policy of which I was the beneficiary Tom Stevens a Chicago Tom Stevens.  That's right isn't it? That's right, isn't it an angel face angel face that's what yeah, that's what Tom used to call you, isn't it? But how did you know I guess I forgot to tell you my name isn't Joe Anglin. 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for me um and lots of people are relating to the burnt potato story because we do kind of live in this world where we tell ourselves that we'll survive and we're burning the candle at both ends and i just wanted women out there to know that they don't have to live that way and when i was sitting in my garden thinking about my little girl pia and you know she was one years old and i was like god what's gonna happen to me why didn't i look after myself in a more loving way and you know i don't eat the burnt potato now because i don't want pia to eat the burnt potato when she gets older so i suppose it's about breaking the cycle too you also make the point and it one of the five steps you do reference and i find this one interesting you say don't do for others what they can do for themselves and it is an interesting one because maybe sometimes we almost unconsciously take tasks upon ourselves on the assumption that we're the only person who's able to do it and then suddenly we realize that if i'm not there to do it well it'll still get done it'll not be an issue and in a week's time no one's going to know who did or who didn't do it so you know on every level perhaps that's something that we have to do not not so much because we need to force other people to do it but we need to force ourselves to stop yeah and i think that's i have the disease to please so i have like five steps and how you can stop people pleasing and that is one of the steps you know don't do for others what they can do for themselves and really i suppose uh like i want to do everything for my family and i want to protect them and i want to keep them safe and i i want to make their life as easy as possible but actually i'm doing no favorites for my child um you know not teaching her how to look after herself how to get herself ready for school how to dress herself and i suppose with the cancer i was forced to surrender i was forced um for people around me to you know figure it out for themselves for jamie my husband to step up to the place and and really you know take the parenting 50 50 and uh i was definitely forced into that but i wanted to show people that you don't have to get sick to make changes you know the worst doesn't have to happen in order for you to start really caring about yourself um so i hope that you know the book the book helps people along their journey through life and i bet jamie sort of exceeded your expectations as well that he was able to step up to the plate and then that nearly begs the question because you were doing everything for him before that were you potentially hampering his growth oh absolutely and i mean like one of the things that i always said about getting cancer because there's so much horrible things that come with the cancer diagnosis but one thing i learned from my cancer diagnosis was i saw my child's relationships with other people grow and you know jamie and p are best friends now he's the most incredible father but you know i had to step back a little bit i was forced to but seeing those relationships like seeing my child laugh the same way she does with me with my mom and my step dad or jamie just made me a little bit less scared about what i was facing so really just kind of i suppose just letting her fly and um you know it took me a long long time to say that cancer gave me more than it took for me and i know everyone's cancer journey is different but for me it just it's almost like it took me by the shoulders and turned me in a different direction and i hear from women now who are being diagnosed with breast cancer around the country and my message to them is just see where it can take you and i know it is so scary but if you're open to the journey i swear to god it's not all that absolutely i couldn't agree one word that the good glow podcast is the podcast you have that's available i take it on all reputable and other platforms and the book and if you're watching this on youtube or on our facebook 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we have on june i think we'll do is we'll just step away from that for just a moment carlin will try and get you back perhaps on the line um or we'll try and connect again but uh we we can't hear that at all so we're going to be speaking about hemochromatosis just uh basically what hemochromatosis is just to give you a very brief background it's a hereditary condition in which excessive amounts of iron are absorbed from the diet that iron is then deposited in various organs mainly in the parenchymal cells of the liver and also in the pancreas the heart the anterior pituitary and in the joints early diagnosis is vital because without treatment hemochromatosis can cause premature death it results from a fault in a gene known as the h f e gene and now we'll just switch from zoom to the phone and hopefully we have moira moira good morning good morning greg how are you very well indeed thank you very much indeed for joining us on the thank you for having this morning it's it's our pleasure moira we were just discussing briefly there what hemochromatosis actually is give us an insight from your point of view as someone who lives with hemochromatosis what it means on a day-to-day basis okay okay so the the explanation really is too much iron in your body and it's a genetic disorder and it's where large amounts of iron are absorbed from the diet into vital organs such as the liver heart lungs and body tissue and so what they refer we refer to it as iron overload now it can be fatal and that's the message i suppose i'd like to bring across to your listeners today it can be fatal if not detected barely and it's a it's the most common genetic disorder one in five people are carriers but one in about 20 of the population actually have this disorder so i was diagnosed with this about five years ago after my brother and was diagnosed with it and the reason i was diagnosed was obviously he was diagnosed with but i wouldn't have known i had it only he he had been going with problems with his limbs and his joints and stuff like that so and if he hadn't been diagnosed i might be around today my my father died at 58 from this and and you discovered your grandfather died at 57 as well yeah that's right and in both cases they would have been undiagnosed undiagnosed it wasn't known well in in terms of i mean how much impact does this have on you on on a day-to-day basis because presumably it means you have to watch your diet presumably it means you have to take tablets and medication i mean are you allowed through management to live a normal life what impact is this going to have on you on a day-to-day basis okay so the really good news once it's diagnosed the there's a simple solution that's just take getting blood taken and to bring down your ferritin levels so it's so you can live a very normal life and the diet you have to be eating a lorry load of broccoli or a drink and a load of Guinness for it to build back up again it the iron builds up over years from your diet but one getting one vinnus section just the mechanism to get rid of and blood would get rid of an awful lot of you know the you know an awful lot yeah quite a lot of the iron you know are you limited in the amount of red meat you can eat for instance because that's the food that would be yeah sorry they say not feeding a huge amount of red meat but you can have some red meat it's all in moderation yeah but the diet isn't a huge thing it's actually detection and you know getting your vinnus sections regularly is the key and the messages i suppose the hemochromatosis association would like to get out there today is that if you have us tell your family and secondly that we'd like to see the national strategy for hemochromatosis which is in the process of being it's been developed and it's been presented to the government and we're hoping that there'll be more awareness made of it now the the the figures are it that one in five carry that faulty hfe gene that can lead to full hemochromatosis and it's reckoned one in 83 people in the country have that condition what percentage of those would be undiagnosed and i i wouldn't know exactly what percentage but and haven't been diagnosed there's been research up in the north of ireland which would indicate that there's an awful lot more than one in 83 people have hemochromatosis but and you know which we don't know at this moment in time so screening program would be very useful to have to be able to detect how many people are going around hemochromatosis now we're told that ireland has a higher concentration of this in the population than any other country in the world do we know why that is um no actually not no i don't know why that is sorry about that now it is an interesting one um because it's very very interesting yeah because you would have thought our diet isn't that different yeah yeah yeah no it's um it's just um it's just one of those things and it's one that it's a piece of research that i'm sure the hemochromatosis association are looking into at the moment in terms of the the drawing out of the blood i mean obviously you you have to go to to hospital on a regular basis to get this check checked with your gps and blood tests and so on and so forth how often do you have to go through that actual process to effectively cleanse out your body okay so um when i was diagnosed with hemochromatosis my levels um of ferritin were at 1400 the normal level is about 15 to 200 in women so mine were way up so that meant that my iron levels were so high they were going to affect my organs so i started going to get finis sections and i was getting them weekly now my levels are right to about 350 and there are there are fairly management levels but you'll need to get them down because you'll feel very tired with that level of iron in your in your body do you have to take tablets or um treatments on a day-to-day basis or is it just however often the finis sections are necessary however often the finis sections are necessary and it's a very easy very very easy process going to your hospital or your doctor they it's just like giving blood if you're giving blood for the transfusion service that's exactly what it is and they'll take your your unit of blood and that will bring down your iron levels and you'll be um your bloods will be tested again to see how high they are and it's just a process like that so the only really disadvantage really to having it um as long as you're managing it is is having to go and get a finis section which isn't the big deal yeah is there any home test you can do uh yourself to sort of determine when a finis section is needed or do you just have to go to your gp or go to the hospital on a regular basis and get tested there yeah get tested no i go to the hospital there's no home kits at the moment um it's something worth thinking about i think and maybe it is something the hemochromatosis association will look into but at the moment we just do a blood test the blood test will always show your if your levels of iron are high now normally if you go to the doctor to get your blood tests done iron isn't really one of those things that's normally done so you need to ask the doctor to say let's say you do the iron test and that will show if your certain levels are are very high and if they are um it does a good it's a good indicator that you have hemochromatosis mario thanks indeed for speaking to us this morning um we wish you all the best and uh as you said you're with the hemochromatosis association we can presume that if one in 83 people in the country have this then a lot of people are out there with it and they don't realize they have it uh you know more than anyone uh the pain of premature death as a result of this you've having lost both your your father and your grandfather at ages uh now younger than yourself um and if we can prevent that from happening to other families um it'll be a job well done and i mean what if people as you say if people are feeling tired in terms of symptoms how how should people know to go and get tested to go and get get a consultation on on this what what sort of symptoms okay so you know even they're cheap what the symptoms really i suppose tiredness chronic fatigue was my one abdominal pain diminished sex drive or impotence arthritis and you know all those things skin pigmentation that can lead to diabetes arthritis and liver disorder so look if you have if you have any idea that you have any of these um symptoms or even if you're just going to your doctor get in your blood no harm to say do an iron test see what my iron levels are like and it will show but i will say i could be dead today if my brother wasn't detected diagnosed because i didn't have any great symptoms myself you know so whilst i was sitting in blissful ignorance and i had a very high ferret level of 1400 while the norm is 15 to 200 in women so it was damaging my but my my my organs and thankfully i got it in time and was it after your brother was diagnosed then that you realized that that's what had killed your father and your grandfather there's no reason today great that um we can't have some form of screening back in those days you can't blame anyone because it wasn't even known about but today we know about it and this is what today is about this is why we're on the radio and doing these interviews and we really appreciate the stations like your own giving us air time it's our pleasure as we say this is what we call our wellness wednesday spot and uh what better way to use it than to to raise awareness of of a condition that many of her listeners may unknowingly actually have uh mario thank you very much indeed thank you craig thank you thank you that's that's moira jackson uh jack man their apologies moira that's moira jackman uh speaking to us there um and it's a as she said there if you're feeling any of those symptoms just briefly run down through them again unexplained weakness or fatigue abdominal pain diminished sex drive or impotence arthritis particularly in the knuckles and the ankles diabetes liver disorders discoloration of the skin mood swings irritability abnormal heart rhythm uh and you know there can be uh indications that you may have hemochromatosis and um go see your gp uh take advice from your doctor and see what the situation can be um you may find it is as happened in the case of moira and her brother a life-saving consultation could you please play a request from your mom's 87th birthday today madge callahan of grove hall in remelton that's from levinia who's in birmingham in the uk she'll see you in august with great grandson reese have a wonderful day and that's from levinia so um madge callahan grove hall remelton have an absolutely wonderful day watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highland radio dot com streaming exclusively on disney plus strippers they're still doing it what do you think after 25 years the full monday crew 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online and 67 through blended learning that all means people in donnie gall will have access to hundreds of courses across the country which is good news and this is one of those sort of throwbacks from covid where now there is so much more emphasis being put on zoom and things like that that it is opening up these new areas of opportunity that weren't there before let's move on to mobile and a major award for a company there yeah congratulations to patrick mcglacken his wife marina and all the team at silver strand ropeworks limited in mobile who were crowned regional winners at this year's national enterprise awards held in dublin on thursday patrick was a guest on business matters donal last month he set up his business at the age of 17 around the same time he was sitting his leaving certificate back in 1990 back in december silver strand ropes which is the only producer of rope and errand was announced as the overall winner at the donnie gall enterprise awards so a massive award for himself and his team and i really enjoyed my visit down there a few weeks ago very modest on assuming man in progress with 10 people but a great success story and well deserved and speaking of local boys made good a busy time for letter kennyman cahill gagan as well yeah letter kennyman cahill gagan has been appointed as a director and board member at irish food service suppliers alliance based at newton abbey cahill is managing director at henerson food service and was recently elected president of the northerland chamber of commerce and industry now a lot of people looking to buy premises and buildings around the county and if anyone ever fancied owning an old coast guard station yeah now they can that was your chance the former coast guard station in bonk rana has been placed on the market with a reserve price of 200 000 euro the station was built around 1870 and the sale is being handled by sean fury auctioneers based in bonk rana major investment at cany and doherty's in carne yeah they've launched a revamp store following an investment of 1 million euro donal the store employs 75 people and following the revamp and additional 10 rows will be created within the store cany and doherty's supervalue is independently owned by jerry doherty and has been in business for over 40 years now let's move on to this week's podcast and your guest this week a man that you and i would have knocked about with a fair bit back in the early days and when i say early days i mean early days i think i'm still still here of manual typewriters donal absolutely and i'm sure the way you you got your news together here was was much uh it was a lot different yes yeah that was much more labor intensive we know we in fairness we were we were right up with modern technology we had a fax machine yeah we i remember the fax machine coming to the dunagall team this past summer i was doing a work on sunday day in 1990 and i still think it's one of the best inventions even though obviously technology has come on a lot but they are the fax machine yeah my guest this week donal is the owner of column kill press and dairy and spokesperson for the dairy university group garwin downey a former journalist with the aries news the sunday times the belfast telegraph and the dairy journal he was also the editor of the dairy news in 2005 garwin moved into the publishing sector through guild hall press and three years ago he set up a column kill press and this latest publication the handiway guide to dairy has just gone on sale garwin is currently working on 25 books and is planning to have four of those published before the end of the year here garwin talks about the difference between the world of journalism and the role of a book publisher after i left tourism per se i took me a wee while to settle down and realized that not everything is a deadline and not everything has to be done particularly with a radio radio you're doing bulletins every hour or it can be even more regular it can be every half hour and it's like you're getting an adrenaline hit all that time and i don't think it could be good for you to be doing that for all your life and you don't really get a chance to get an overview of a helicopter view of what you're doing what your what your big product is going to become or what what you're doing with your life even and what your i suppose macro projects are and uh you're just running from short term project the short term project so i like them to be able to step back first and when i went back in the newspaper i like the fact that was i was out in the newspaper twice a week which was good it wasn't too happy get allowed you to think to develop ideas and developed and constantly improve whereas well you don't get that with radio at all it's so instant and then when you do books books are they're generally count the projects that last a year or possibly two years so there's an awful lot of thought goes on them and an awful lot of care goes on them and a lot of thought goes on them and i have to say i can't prefer that longer process food for thought care and particularly for ourselves and i have to say for me i am looking forward to hearing this one really really you know and i'll be i'll be on it first thing this afternoon yeah look we covered a lot of ground we were passed over across the different stages as well during the years um i suppose one of the things i asked him stories that came to mind that i suppose 1983 i suppose it was a year of a very contrast and fortunes for dairy he talked about the gravestone murders and the funerals and i also talked about dairy willing the sam mcguire in that same year donal i suppose i asked him to you about you know the the process of somebody commenting and having a conversation about a book until the time scale from then to the book going on the shelf average two years between research writing editing and proofing and a man who pays a big attention to detail and they also talked about the importance of other people reading your work and making sure that it was 100 percent and and you more than most will know the importance of good editing yeah and look it was it was funny you know i suppose similarities in some ways but he's really enjoying what he's doing now i was just thinking 25 books as a fair workload at the minute donal and four of those he's hoping to have out by the end of the year pat mcguire's memoirs is one of those four books and i'm definitely looking forward to seeing it just it's also a spokesperson for the dairy university group as well donal and a few a few pointers he said belfast at 83 percent of the third level of student at the minute compared to say double having 40 percent and london 20 and he described belfast as overheating in that regard and he was also of the view that dairy hasn't progressed as much as really should have had since the good friday agreement so a lot of food for thought we covered a lot of ground and i really enjoyed the 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staff that gets the criticism it's the system that gets the criticism sometimes if you go in there at the right time you can be dealt with relatively speedily and we all hear the nightmare stories all the time if you were able to be in and out of there in an hour and a half that is wonderful to know we discussed hemochromatosis earlier on our wellness wednesday spot corridors i was diagnosed with hemochromatosis nine years ago following my brother's diagnosis it turns out that five out of six of us have it plus many of you i had experienced unexplained constant fatigue all my life but just kept going i now have regular venus section and i'm so grateful that my heart liver and pancreas are protected i enjoy a healthy lifestyle i walk every day eat very little red meat but eat vegetables high in iron in moderation thanks to that caller for highlighting the condition that moira jackson that joined us there from the hemochromatosis association now the caller says i'm with revolute they're 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integration of gaelic games uh dr kate listen is joining us on the line now dr kate is a researcher with australia university and more importantly is a multiple all irland winner and all star in gaelic football so she knows what she's talking about dr kate good morning good morning donal how are you very well indeed thank you the research you're undergoing is the potential of integration of gaelic games to make it more inclusive and potentially forming a new association to do this how is this research going to be carried out and where do you think it's going so the the research is already underway i'm working as part of a research team with ifa lane who has a background in the women's gpa which some of your listeners will know merged with the gpa very recently and also connor miler known in the men's gaelic football world for his work with toron but in our world he's also a phd researcher down at the technological university of shannon so together ifa connor and i felt that there was a need to try and understand and learn from mergers and integration processes in other sports donal but also in other parts of the world so over the last couple of months we have been reviewing that research we have been speaking to stakeholders who were involved in the establishment of golf irland which is a new entity also based on equality and what we've done is tried to draw those insights together in this policy search down the line we're hoping to talk much more to members of the gaelic games family over over the coming months and that'll be part of connor's work as part of his phd research but for today we're highlighting what we think are five main recommendations one of which you've just mentioned donal is the potential to build a new organization for gaelic games that would be underpinned by the principle of equality i suppose that the main reason why we're saying this is that we feel that a new organization could be much more than just the simple sum of the best bits of the three organizations for the gaa the komogi association and ladies gaelic football and it would also then give an opportunity for very real structural reform as part of that process a lot of people will be surprised to hear this because i would have assumed that the lgfa was uh sort of a group within the gaa and it was already integrated i mean what is the relationship then between lgfa and gaa because i mean i would have in my naivety i would have assumed they were the same thing well you see on the ground where you where you've got clubs working really well together donal indoni gall and elsewhere the differences between them are almost imperceptible but but in the organizational setup the ladies gaelic football association is a standalone entity it has sole responsibility for the governance of ladies gaelic football and it's separate autonomous from the gaa the komogi association is affiliated to the gaa and part of the reason for that is to do with the different histories the heritage and also probably the different sizes of the organizations but it might also surprise the listeners today to know that the idea of integrating the three has been visited for as long as the ladies gaelic football association has been in existence so i think it's next year yeah next year is the 60th anniversary year of ladies gaelic football and the first recommendation where the gaa would enhance cooperation if you will with the komogi association was in 1971 in the the late 90s the gaa established a committee to examine ways of working with both the women's associations that was ladies gaelic football and and komogi and then three years later in 1995 the komogi association affiliated with the gaa now in the 2000s all three associations worked together a little bit more closely and established an integration task force and at that stage there was a one county pilot scheme in eight counties down gallway leash wexford limrick ross common tip and turone and they produced an integration report in 2007 number of recommendations some of which maybe have happened organically precisely for the reason that you've mentioned that most people on the ground are getting on with building their communities developing the sports and more than that offering support to the young players coming through but as you will know last year at the three congresses there was an almost unanimous vote that they would formally integrate so because this is very unique donal nowhere in the world have we when we've looked at the research have we identified a comparable case where there is a multi sport integration and also multi entities so three associations three sports but also of course with implications for the other gaelic sports rounders and handball once the integration process has happened so that's that was one of the reasons why we wanted to add an evidence base to it and also to give i suppose to give to the gaelic games family something that will help them grapple with the potential issues at stake as we move forward in the integration process one of the challenges here and i'm sure this is something that the research has looked at is you've got to do it in such a way that you don't just form a situation where ladies gaelic football becomes absorbed into the gAA and it'll be covered under aob at the next meeting and the gAA will continue on as it was with just some ladies in a room over in the corner that they have to do something about every now and again you're going to have to make sure that integration means exactly that that when the lgfa is absorbed into gAA that voice that's looking after women in gaelic football is not silenced that women do very much have a place within that new organization you're spot on donal you can join the research team if you want because um it's actually one of the things that was very clear in some of the international case studies we looked at there was a women's cricket in australia golf in new zealand uk sport where there was governmental reform that in a sense forced ngbs to come together rather than building a base of of equality and where there is that kind of hollow rhetoric around gender equality that's the very real risk that the women's organization which is typically weaker and smaller by virtue of size and a shorter history but of course has just as much of a heritage and an identity that's been built up over time that they might be sidelined and indeed the women would be underrepresented in the influential decision making position so that's one of the recommendations and one of the reasons why we say we think there's an opportunity for a new organization a couple of the other things we've recommended is that we prioritize female representation particularly over the next five years and that we monitor that to see how well we could meet equality targets that we would also develop a funding model that in in the short term would prioritize investment into women's gaelic football and camogie and that we would then plan for what we call a full integration process now that's not going to happen overnight and we think based on what we've learned so far and also from from what's happened in golf ireland but to do it well and to underpin it with equality you could take anything up to five years or more and that i fear is going to be a conversation for a different day because time has got up with this doctor okay listen i'm very sorry to cut you off but time has beaten us this is a fascinating subject we will i have no doubt return to it that's it from the 9th until noon show for today thank you to neve thank you to carline for producing thank you to everyone who participated in the program this morning thanks to all our guests to all our listeners and most importantly thanks to you without whom the show wouldn't exist john is up next around the northwest greg's back tomorrow from me don't know have a very good day around the northwest will be live at foyer and company's 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