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Today, Dr. Carole takes you behind the scenes in Iran and looks at how the world is inching closer to WWIII with two guests who know the answers. Today's guests are 'insiders' when it comes to Iran - and they may have solved the problem by the end of the show! Shirin Nariman was a political prisoner inside Iran when she was only 16 years old. She discusses the torture she underwent and the work that she has been doing since coming to the United States, to continue to help the Iranian people. She will discuss what Iranians want now. U.S. Army Lt Colonel Robert McGinnis (Ret.) began serving in the Pentagon after he retired from the army and remains a senior fellow for national security. He also has decades of media experience, including as a FOX News military analyst. He's the author of eleven published books, with his most recent being AI for Mankind's Future, which is the first of a trilogy.

It's not just a rumor... it's really happening! The Chinese Communist Party has been harvesting organs from people they want to be rid of and giving them to the highest bidders! Today's guest, Jan Jekielek, should know. He's spent 20 years researching this secret horror and is finally telling the world, in his new - already bestselling book - "Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary." He also reveals what America is doing (inadvertently?) to enable this industry in China. And think it could never happen here? Think again!

We can't help but feel flooded and overwhelmed by all the news about the Iran War - blaring at us from tv, radio, internet and other people. It ca be frightening... especially if we don't know who to believe. So, today's guest, Dennis Kneale, will help us do just that. You may recognize him from his anchor stints at CNBC and FOX Business, or from his senior roles at The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. His specialty is separating the truth from the lies and correcting misinformation. His forthcoming book, Ore-Goners, focuses on the downfall of Oregon, but its lessons about misinformation are universal.

There's the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times and many community newspapers throughout California. So why do we need the California Post, anyway? Today's guest, Joel Pollak, the Opinion Editor of the California Post, will give us his 'opinions' as to why we need this new addition to the publishing scene in California and where it is headed.

We can't help but feel flooded and overwhelmed by all the news about the Iran War - blaring at us from tv, radio, internet and other people. It ca be frightening... especially if we don't know who to believe. So, today's guest, Dennis Kneale, will help us do just that. You may recognize him from his anchor stints at CNBC and FOX Business, or from his senior roles at The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. His specialty is separating the truth from the lies and correcting misinformation. His forthcoming book, Ore-Goners, focuses on the downfall of Oregon, but its lessons about misinformation are universal.

Do you have kids in school who are being taught how to become woke and other lies? Today's guest, Robert Bortins, author of Woke and Weaponized: How Karl Marx Won the Battle for American Education and How We Can Win It Back, will explain everything you ever wanted to know. Have you been wondering how public schools (and even some private ones) have become breeding grounds for woke ideology that turn kids into todoay's anti-American protesters? Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, will explain it all and how you can spring this trap!

While We Are Sleeping... Chinese Communists Are Taking Over America! You don't believe it? Well you will, when you hear our guest talk reveal their secrets today. Nan Su is currently a Senior Reporter for the Epoch Times, a New York-based newspaper published in 36 countries and 22 languages. Mr. Su's focus has been subjects related to China. Born and raised in China, Mr. Nan Su came to the United States in 1989. Since 2003, he has served as a news commentator for the SOH International Chinese Radio Network and NTD International TV Network, focusing on news related to China. Over the past two decades, Mr. Su has delivered numerous speeches at public events on a wide range of China-related topics. As an expert on China, Mr. Su's work has covered extensively on subjects such as the threat of CCP's global expansion - buying up American land in very strategic places, acts of bioterrorism - such as smuggling in dangerous viruses, the security of Taiwan and Taiwan Strait, CCP's human rights abuses in China, China's economy, traditional Chinese culture before communism, forced organ harvesting in China, and the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong.

Is the Soul More Than Biology? How One Mother and Her Neurologically Injured Son Are Challenging Modern Science The Book of Heaven: A Story of Hope for the Outcasts, the Broken, and Those Who Lost Faith is a memoir co-written by Katie Asher and her severely neurologically injured autistic son, Houston. What began as a family's struggle with disability has become one of the most talked-about—and scientifically examined—cases at the intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and faith. Why this story matters Houston's condition left him unable to speak or control his body—but with extraordinary cognitive and perceptual abilities that stunned every professional who encountered him. His case has since become the subject of major scientific inquiry, a new national documentary, and season one of the hit podcast The Telepathy Tapes—which reached #1 on Christmas Day, surpassing even The Joe Rogan Experience. This story is now drawing interest from: Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell (Johns Hopkins–trained neuroscientist), Dr. Julia Mossbridge (Northwestern University), Dr. Marjorie Woollacott (University of Oregon, Professor Emeritus), Jeff Tarrant, PhD (EEG neuroscience specialist), and other researchers who are peer-reviewing Houston's data and conducting additional studies. Their findings challenge long-held assumptions about the brain, consciousness, neurological injury, and even the nature of the soul. The core of the book The Book of Heaven is not a scientific paper—it's a deeply human story about a boy whose neurological injury left him trapped in his own body, yet able to describe spiritual realities and scriptural truths he had never been exposed to. The book blends rigorous scientific research, firsthand testimony, neurological and physiological analysis, and the spiritual insights Houston shared despite being unable to speak. Readers in more than seven countries have written to say the book changed their lives. Why the story is controversial—and important The documentary team behind The Telepathy Tapes chose to avoid the spiritual dimension of Houston's experiences. His mother wrote this book so the full story—the scientific and spiritual components—could finally be told without dilution. Her claim is not merely that her son has unusual abilities, but that his case offers evidence of consciousness independent from motor function and aligns with key descriptions in Scripture. This story sits at the crossroads of neuroscience, disability, faith, the mind–body problem, family endurance, and the limits of what we believe is possible. It's rare for a memoir to generate this level of scientific attention — and rarer still for scientists of this caliber to engage with a single case across multiple studies, podcasts, and documentaries. The audiobook releases this December, and the documentary will debut this spring.

Today, Dr. Carole takes you behind the scenes in Iran and looks at how the world is inching closer to WWIII with two guests who know the answers.

So many shocking news stories, so little time. It's enough to make one's head spin and it does. So, Dr. Carole will take you behind the headlines and help you figure out what's really going on and what this means for you and your loved ones. She's analyzed the Minnesota anti-ICE rebels and will tell you what mental illnesses they're suffering from. Putting on her forensic psychiatrist/expert witness hat, she'll dig into the case of the missing mother of Savannah Guthrie, Nancy Guthrie. And she'll put on her Terrorist Therapist® hat to analyze Iran and what brought us to the brink of WW III.

Does the world feel upside down to you? Do words like Wokeism, Globalism and Great Reset make your head spin? Today's guest, Mark Gober, will help you figure it all out and set things nightside up again. He's the author of An End to the Upside Down Reset: The Leftist Vision for Society Under the "Great Reset"—and How It Can Fool Caring People into Supporting Harmful Causes. He will also explain how Trump has stopped the Great Reset in its tracks and is about to reset them - just in time. Whether you realize it or not, a vision for society—called the Great Reset—was formally unveiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2020, several months after COVID-19 emerged. The WEF is one of the most influential bodies in the world and has ties to the highest levels of global governments and industries. In fact, its Great Reset has implications for our collective future in terms of culture, politics, economics, the environment, technology, and metaphysics. So if you don't think this subject affects you and your family—think again. In Mark Gober's An End to the Upside Down Reset, he deconstructs the Great Reset's stated vision. He demonstrates that while the proposed societal changes might sound compassionate, in practice they could be harmful. Moreover, the Great Reset largely aligns with a leftist worldview that dominates modern education and media—and it becomes even more entrenched because of unconscious psychological biases. Breaking through the fog of this programming allows one to see that the Great Reset risks bringing about a dystopia. Mark is also the author of the seven books "Upside Down" series, which spans politics, economics, medicine, cosmology, and more. We will also touch upon them and put these topics right side up again.

Today's guest, Michael Menard, isn't just a survivor of childhood trauma, he's a thriver. His new book, Greater Than Gravity: How Childhood Trauma is Pulling Down Humanity and is responsible for killing at least 1,401 Americans every day. Hear why and how and what can be done about it.

Today's guest, A.W. Finnegan, author of The Sleeper Agent: The Rise of Lyme Disease, Chronic Illness and the Great Imitator Antigens of Biologial Warfare, says they are!

You've heard a lot about Charlie Kirk already, but you haven't heard about why we should care. Today's guest, Drew Thomas Allen, is the author of the widely acclaimed new book, For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. This book isn't a typical biography, it's a call to action. It examines Kirk's life and assassination as a warning about America's moral and political unraveling. Allen is the West Coast VP at Publius PR, a premiere communications firm, where he has worked as a publicist for many of the biggest names in politics - including Charlie Kirk. He is also a widely published columnist, in-demand political analyst in the media and host of the popular Drew Allen Show podcast. He is also the other of America's Last Stand: Will You Vote to Save or Destroy America in 2024? and Uncommon Sense.

LIVE FROM ISRAEL: What's a Somaliland & How Will It Bring Peace to the Middle East? There's lots of talk these days about Somalis destroying Minnesota. But, what's a Somaliland? How is it different from Somalia? And why is Israel sending shockwaves throughout the world by being the first country to recognize Somaliland? Does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have an ace up his sleeve or is he making a big mistake? Today's guest Rabbi Pesach Wolicki has the answers. He's an expert of Israel and Middle East Diplomacy and the theological and ideological drivers behind Western and Islamist policies toward the Jewish state. He will explain why this little-known African state may now be a decisive pivot point in the struggle between Israel and Iran – and why American audiences cannot afford to ignore it.​

To say Israel is underappreciated these days is an understatement! So, it's about time that an Israel Appreciation Day occurs! Today's guest, Steve Rosenberg, is part of the Organizing Committee and he will tell us all about it. You will be surprised at how much there is for the world to appreciate - the inventions we count on every day, and much more!

Is the Soul More Than Biology? How One Mother and Her Neurologically Injured Son Are Challenging Modern Science The Book of Heaven: A Story of Hope for the Outcasts, the Broken, and Those Who Lost Faith is a memoir co-written by Katie Asher and her severely neurologically injured autistic son, Houston. What began as a family's struggle with disability has become one of the most talked-about—and scientifically examined—cases at the intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and faith. Why this story matters Houston's condition left him unable to speak or control his body—but with extraordinary cognitive and perceptual abilities that stunned every professional who encountered him. His case has since become the subject of major scientific inquiry, a new national documentary, and season one of the hit podcast The Telepathy Tapes—which reached #1 on Christmas Day, surpassing even The Joe Rogan Experience. This story is now drawing interest from: Their findings challenge long-held assumptions about the brain, consciousness, neurological injury, and even the nature of the soul. The core of the book The Book of Heaven is not a scientific paper—it's a deeply human story about a boy whose neurological injury left him trapped in his own body, yet able to describe spiritual realities and scriptural truths he had never been exposed to. The book blends rigorous scientific research, firsthand testimony, neurological and physiological analysis, and the spiritual insights Houston shared despite being unable to speak. Readers in more than seven countries have written to say the book changed their lives. Why the story is controversial—and important The documentary team behind The Telepathy Tapes chose to avoid the spiritual dimension of Houston's experiences. His mother wrote this book so the full story—the scientific and spiritual components—could finally be told without dilution. Her claim is not merely that her son has unusual abilities, but that his case offers evidence of consciousness independent from motor function and aligns with key descriptions in Scripture. This story sits at the crossroads of neuroscience, disability, faith, the mind–body problem, family endurance, and the limits of what we believe is possible. It's rare for a memoir to generate this level of scientific attention — and rarer still for scientists of this caliber to engage with a single case across multiple studies, podcasts, and documentaries. The audiobook releases this December, and the documentary will debut this spring.

When Dr. Carole isn't hosting Dr. Carole's Couch, appearing in the media, helping people cope with terrorsm, or seeing patients, she's working as a Beverly Hills forensic psychiatrist testifying as an expert in criminal and civil trials nationwide. So, today, she'll take you behind the scenes of the latest trials making headlines: P. Diddy, Karen Read, Bryan Kohberger and Luigi Mangione. You can check out www.expertwitnessforensicpsychiatrist.com to read about some of the hi-profile trials she's worked on and watch videos of some of her TV trial commentary.

Want to know how to start a war in America, if not World War III? Just ask Biden because he's on his way to doing it! A big part of this is his obsession with bringing in so-called Palestinians, refugees from Gaza. This is a BIG mistake, and here to explain why is today's guest, Morgan Lerette, former Army intelligence Captain and author of Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq, an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes tell-all account of the scathing and dangerous life of mercenaries at war in Iraq. At a time when Biden has initiated a pier, as a plan to facilitate supplies getting to Gaza, inserting America into the war and putting Americans at risk, Lerette will give a first-hand analysis of what this will do to the Middle East war. As a private contractor employed by the notorious Blackwater in the early days of the Iraq War, he pulls no punches in calling out the incompetence of both the US military and the Department of State during the collapse of Iraq. You can decide if the insertion of private contractors in Iraq assisted or detracted from the war effort and if the costs in blood and treasure were worth the carnage. He will take you behind the scenes into the world of private contractors conducting high-threat missions for a nascent Iraqi government in the hopes of rebuilding after the fall of Saddam Hussein. With limited support, the men of Blackwater protected US diplomats as the country descended into sectarian violence. It was a hazardous mission complete with rockets, mortars, improvised explosive devices, and not knowing who or where the enemy was.