maybe none of the above. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. we have eight months to go before the first presidential ballot of 2024 is cast. the conventional wisdom is we re headed for a rematch of 2020, this despite concerns that one candidate is too old and the other is morally unfit. which might explain why recent polls have revealed that americans don t want this rematch and there s dissatisfaction with both candidates. last month an nbc poll found that 70% of respondents said biden shouldn t run and 60% said trump shouldn t run. what are the odds that when all is said and done, the democrats nominate someone other than joe biden and republicans select a candidate different than donald trump? back on april 16th i put a polling question to my radio audience asking them if they agreed with this statement, neither biden nor trump will be the nominee. more than 25% of 20,000 plus who voted agree with that statement. maybe my listeners are on to something. this week emmy
if you had a chance to talk to someone you love who had died, would you? i have a man in here actually feels very brotherly to you. that s what 19 year old dan nelson is doing right now. it was his own actions causes his passing. okay i do get the feeling of a suicide. he s visiting a medium a messenger for departed souls. and i m listening in he actually wants to apologize to you because he says he knows that if he had said something to you, you would have done everything in your power to help him. deep in the woods of upstate new york 20,000 people gather each year looking for someone they ve lost. do you ever feel spirit approaching? you whispering in your ear all the time, dear god of the great divine. please allow own any information to send love out and receive love in the other expanding circle. it s a place to ask the hardest questions. is he screaming or is he already passed out? it s one of the things i need to know answers that might leave a shocked i am literally
it s nearly midnight, and these men are in the middle of a covert operation. they re moving precious cargo and they don t want to be seen. why all the secrecy? their followers of a new religion. but these men don t praise god. satan. they call themselves the satanic temple, and they re descending upon detroit to unveil what s underneath this tarp and it s making some people in motown furious. to the devil out. why satan? same as the liberator. he makes us question everything satanic movement is sweeping across the nation. and they want their voices heard. this is our city america was founded on the idea that church and state should remain separate. but the u. s constitution has always been open to interpretation. and today one group is trying to close the gap. christian right, wants god front and center in all matters and not just on sundays. state legislators are pushing for prayer in school. presidential candidates routinely invoked god s name across has power commandments
never not dealing with it. what if it were easier for you to deal with pets than with people ? i can t imagine living without dogs. and what if you went from endurance athletes to wheelchair bound in just six months? you realize oh, this isn t going the way this is my life, you know? how would you cope? tonight we ll meet three people who overcame their odds by doing something that you might think is a joke. we re setting out on a strange trip. but stick with us. it s all about to make sense. think back on your childhood for a moment. do you remember the first time you saw mickey? how excited you were on your face? do you remember watching cartoons as a kid and the happiness that brought you entire industries have been built on this. on having kids experienced this magic. but what if you never grew out of that feeling? there are people whose affinity for animal characters never went away. people like lindsey. you okay? you sure? yes the first thing i notice about her is that
sometimes bad things happen to really good people. i just saw a flash of guns and two men in masks blasted through the front door won t go away had no place to process what had happened. i was panicking about dying. across america, rates of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder are hitting epidemic levels. individual suffering multiplied times millions. that s a lot of suffering. for so many mainstream medicines are the solution tried a minimum of 16 different antidepressants on me, and none of them work. but something can answer to our psychic pain has been within reach all along. or non tune in and dropped. i ve always known that psychedelic drugs were driving force behind the counter culture. but now even mainstream research hubs like new york university and the johns hopkins center for psychedelic research are exploring their healing power. what we re talking about is a new field of medicine called psychedelic psychotherapy , mdm, a psilocybin ketamine. t