Podcast appearances and mentions of jim baker

7/19/2026 - Living From a Different Reality Part 3: From Orphan to Sons and Daughters - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

Los Angeles hides an almost overwhelming number of ghosts behind its glamour, from the piano-playing spirit at Hollywood's Magic Castle and the body found in the Cecil Hotel's water tank to the sex-magick rocket scientist, Father Yod's robed disciples, and the cults that made the City of Angels a capital of the occult.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/hauntedlaREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98dtw7CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:24.727 = Hollywood's Haunted Magic Castle00:09:13.905 = Los Angeles' Haunted Hotels ***00:27:05.636 = Los Angeles: City of the Occult ***00:51:50.907 = L.A. Ghosts ***01:01:24.337 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Hollywood's Haunted Magic Castle” by Christina Sanza for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/nhdf2f29“Los Angeles' Haunted Hotels” by Andy Miller from Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mvbdcwac“L.A. Ghosts” by Jen Lennon for Graveyard Shift: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/39xypc6c“Los Angeles: City Of The Occult” by Christine Aprile for Weird History: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4y9rj77r(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: April, 2021This episode of Weird Darkness turns to Los Angeles, the City of Angels, and the almost overwhelming number of ghosts, haunted hotels, and occult history hiding behind its glamour, from the Magic Castle and the Cecil Hotel to the sex-magick rocket scientist Jack Parsons, cult leader Father Yod, and the ghosts of Griffith Park.It opens inside Hollywood's Magic Castle at 7001 Franklin Avenue, the private clubhouse of the Academy of Magical Arts, where the Houdini Séance Room honors a magician who spent his career trying to debunk spiritualism and left his wife Bess the code phrase "Rosabelle, believe" for contact from the afterlife. The castle carries the story of Irma, the piano-playing ghost said to have died in 1932 and returned to the mansion built in 1909 by Rollin B. Lane, along with the ghost of magician Dai Vernon near his favorite seat in the Palace of Prestidigitation, the unidentified girl in the Haunted Cellar, and a Halloween 2011 fire that started at the exact time of Houdini's 1926 death and gutted the Dante Room while sparing the Houdini Room.From there the episode checks into the haunted hotels of Los Angeles, beginning with the Knickerbocker, which opened in Hollywood in July of 1929, hosted Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their honeymoon, and staged Bess Houdini's tenth and final rooftop séance the night an isolated thunderstorm struck the building alone. It moves through the Ambassador on Wilshire Boulevard, where Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down by Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen on June 4, 1968, the Rosslyn Annex with its forgotten Prohibition speakeasy, the Alexandria and its bricked-off phantom wing, the Biltmore where Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was last seen before her 1947 murder, and the Cecil Hotel, home to serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger and the site where guest Elisa Lam was found dead in the rooftop water tank in 2013 after guests complained the water tasted strange.Next the episode traces L.A.'s long history of the occult, running from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and his early Pasadena partnership with rocket scientist Jack Parsons, who performed the "Babalon Working" ritual and later died at 37 in a home laboratory explosion, to Charles Manson and the Family murders of August 1969 that killed Sharon Tate and six others, Carlos Castaneda and the Yaqui shaman Don Juan Matus who launched the New Age movement, and Jim Baker, the marine turned messiah Father Yod, who took fourteen wives and led the Source Family from a Hollywood Hills mansion. It covers avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger and the witch Marjorie Cameron, the 1920 LAPD raid on the Mazdaznan sun-worshipers, the love-cult of Edith Maida Lessing at Mount Helios, the Devil's Gate Dam in Pasadena, and the curse Petronilla Feliz laid on the land that became Griffith Park.The episode closes with a tour of famous L.A. ghosts: the more than one hundred jumpers off Pasadena's Colorado Street "suicide bridge," including Myrtle Ward, whose daughter survived the fall; the body parts Marines found in a freezer at the abandoned Rancho Los Amigos hospital in 2006; picnic table number 29 in Griffith Park, where a couple was crushed by a falling tree in 1976; Bela Lugosi's hearse drifting past his favorite cigar shop; the many spirits of the Queen Mary docked in Long Beach; the unsolved 1929 deaths of Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett at Greystone Mansion; the ghost of Superman actor George Reeves; and Bob Baker, still haunting his marionette theater alongside the dead puppeteers who worked there.

What would the Founding Fathers think of America today? That question sparked historian and novelist Johanna Neuman's new book, Trump's Superpower, in which George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and other founders — plus revolutionary-era writer Mercy Otis Warren — are summoned back to earth for America's 250th birthday and dropped into today's culture wars. Neuman joins Newt Gingrich to discuss the novel's premise, her argument that reclaiming the founders is President Trump's greatest political strength, and why she believes the Founding Fathers are trending again in American culture. The conversation also covers Neuman's remarkable journalism career — from covering the Reagan White House and Jim Baker's State Department to writing Gilded Suffragists, her award-winning history of the fashionable New York socialites who helped push women's suffrage over the finish line.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6/24/2026 - Wed PM

YOU GOT QUESTIONS? WE GOT ANSWERS. The Montyman and Roger open the Take 12 Recovery Mailbag and answer some tough questions that listeners have sent in.  Key Topics: ·         Small groups foster personal sharing and deep healing in recovery retreats·         Diverse recovery approaches can be effective; no one-size-fits-all solution·         Jim Baker's humility exemplifies the power of grace and accountability·         Bill Wilson's personal life does not diminish his contributions to AA·         Secular programs like Rational Recovery emphasize personal responsibility over higher power·         Harm reduction strategies focus on safety and health, but may conflict with abstinence goals·         Transparency and integrity are vital in recovery leadership and legacy·         Faith and forgiveness are central to long-term recovery and healing·         Great disappointment in Dave Ramsey and his staff. #recovery #alcoholic #twelvesteps #wedorecover #addiction 

5/31/2026 - The Book of Acts Pt 43: The Message that Turned the World Upside Down - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

5/17/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 41: To Live is Christ - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

4/5/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 35: When God Walked Out of the Grave - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

5/24/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 42: Why Don't We See This Anymore? - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

5/10/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 40: The Gospel Cannot Be Chained - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

5/3/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 39: Whether I Talk Long or Short - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

4/26/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 38: The Grace that Flows - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

4/19/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 37: The Power of the Name of Jesus - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

4/12/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 36: Never Forsaken - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

Chris Holman welcomes Jim Baker, Owner, Innovare, Lansing, MI. Innovare, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan and owned by Jim Baker, is an office furniture company specializing in serving businesses with multiple locations across the country, with 80% of its business conducted outside Michigan. The company's niche is providing a single point of contact for facility managers who need consistent product and installation across many offices, with clients in California, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and even Hawaii. Contrary to what many might expect, COVID-19 was actually a growth period for Innovare, as companies scrambled to retrofit workstations with dividers and stackers, and the recent return-to-office trend has brought another wave of demand. Baker attributes much of his client growth to strong relationships and customer service, with several major accounts following him across companies or expanding their work with him to new cities. Innovare ensures quality control on out-of-state jobs by always sending a trusted lead employee to oversee local installation crews. » Visit MBN website: www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com/ » Subscribe to MBN's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@MichiganbusinessnetworkMBN » Like MBN: www.facebook.com/mibiznetwork » Follow MBN: twitter.com/MIBizNetwork/ » MBN Instagram: www.instagram.com/mibiznetwork/

3/15/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 33: The Battle for Grace - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

5/22/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 34: Life with God - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

Jim Baker discovers the wonder of chickadees!

Another oldie from 20 or 30 years ago, an ad for a new line of products available at Baker's Blue Jay Barn. (Jim Baker voiced by John Keenan.)

A commercial for Jim Baker's new assortment of board games to keep your Blue Jays entertained.

I'm not sure when this first aired--probably around 2000--but I am adding it now because I'm posting several funny programs in time for April Fool's Day.

2/22/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 32: Learning to Live with God - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

2/1/26 - Don't Play With the Rabid Bat - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

1/11/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 29: Between the Call and the Sending - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

1/18/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 30: An Apostle Confronts a Son of the Devil - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

12/28/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 27: No Spirit, No Church - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

1/4/26 - The Book of Acts Pt 28: Touched by an Angel - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

Jim Baker (1934-2016) explains what happens in the first 3.5 years of the 7-year “Tribulation” which occurs after the rapture of the church to heaven, and takes his remarks to the moment in the middle of the “Tribulation” when the antichrist sits in the Temple of God and proclaims himself to be God. (Recorded in Ayr, Scotland) The post The First 3.5 Years of the Great Tribulation | Jim Baker first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

12/14/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 26: When God Breaks the Last Barrier - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

12/21/25 - What God was Saying in the Manger - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

11/23/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 24: From Terrorist to Apostle - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

11/30/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 25: Jesus Christ Makes You Whole - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

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Send us a textStep into a comedy time machine with this remarkable bonus episode featuring a blast from the comedy past! Discovered deep in the Laughs Unlimited archives, we present a rare 1989 television interview with comedy legend Jeff Altman, conducted by fellow comedian Jack Gallagher on the local Sacramento show "TV Light."Jeff Altman, whose face and voice became familiar to millions through his numerous appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman," his memorable commercials, and roles in various TV shows and movies, displays the sharp wit and observational humor that made him a standout performer of his era. The chemistry between Altman and Gallagher creates a masterclass in comedic timing as they riff on shared experiences in the entertainment industry, including a moment when they both auditioned for—and lost—the same role at ABC.The interview captures a fascinating slice of late-80s comedy as Altman tackles the then-current Jim Baker televangelist scandal with biting impressions and commentary. His hilarious recounting of European travel adventures culminates in his adoption of an alias as "Jeff Altman, the Dog Man of Chamonix" to navigate cultural differences in humor—a story that showcases his brilliant character work and storytelling abilities. For comedy historians and enthusiasts alike, this archival footage provides not just laughs but context for understanding how comedy has evolved while maintaining its essential elements.Whether you're a longtime Jeff Altman fan or discovering his work for the first time, this episode offers a rare glimpse into comedy history. Remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share your thoughts about which comedy legends you'd like to see featured from our archives next!Support the show www.StandupComedyPodcastNetwork.com Website....check it out, podcast, jokes, blogs, and More!"NEW" Video Podcast: Tag Team Talent Podcast on Spotify & YouTube Podcast Quality List: https://www.millionpodcasts.com/heritage-podcasts/ Please Write a Review: in-depth walk-through for leaving a review.Interested in Standup Comedy? Check out my books on Amazon..."20 Questions Answered about Being a Standup Comic""Be a Standup Comic...or just look like one"

11/9/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 23: When God Scatters Seed - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

11/2/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 22: The First Martyr - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

10/26/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 21: When Presence Increases, Resistance Increases - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

The Finest Hour: How the Assassination Attempt Secured Reaganomics and the Rise of the Baker-Deaver Troika.Max Boot discusses how on March 30, 1981, just 69 days into his administration, Ronald Reagan was shot after giving a speech in Washington and came very close to death. Boot describes the event as Reagan's "finest hour," as Reagan behaved heroically, maintaining his composure and humor, famously joking with doctors, "I hope you're all Republicans," and telling Nancy, "Honey, I forgot to duck." The immediate political benefit was a huge boost in popularity and a massive increase in the prospects for his first budget, which included tax and spending cuts (Reaganomics). Reagan's great strength was convincing people to see the world as he wished it to be, persuading himself that dramatically cutting taxes and raising defense spending would eliminate the budget deficit, though this proved incorrect as budget deficits grew. Reagan was a "great leader but a poor manager," requiring highly capable people to manage for him, particularly Jim Baker. Boot considers appointing Jim Baker as White House Chief of Staff Reagan's most important decision, creating the Troika structure with James Baker, Ed Meese, and Mike Deaver. Another significant first-term achievement was Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court in August 1981, fulfilling a campaign promise to appoint a woman.

Reagan's Pragmatic Cold War Victory, Don Regan's Disastrous Tenure, and the Iran-Contra Near-Death Experience. Max Boot discusses how Ronald Reagan had no patience for communism, and in his first term, his policy toward the Soviet Union was somewhat unsuccessful, though it improved in 1985 with the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan's genius was recognizing that Gorbachev was a different communist leader he could "do business with," and they established a rapport that allowed them to constructively reduce nuclear armaments and peacefully end the Cold War. The transition into Reagan's second term saw a catastrophic personnel decision when Reagan allowed Jim Baker and Don Regan to swap jobs. Regan lacked political instincts and presided over problems that culminated in the Iran-Contra scandal. Reagan was highly exercised by American hostages seized by Hezbollah, and National Security Advisor Bud McFarlane suggested shipping weapons to supposed Iranian moderates in exchange for hostage releases, which was a fiasco. The scandal intensified when McFarlane's successor, John Poindexter, and Oliver North diverted the profits from the weapon sales to fund the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. This incident could have led to impeachment, but Reagan's salvation was his reputation for being hands-off and disengaged. Reagan also faced criticism over a human rights double standard, speaking eloquently about violations behind the Iron Curtain but being less exercised about apartheid in South Africa.

10/5/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 20: The 100 Day Healing Challenge - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

Enjoy this replay from September 21, 2025, with Guest Speaker Jim Baker as he shares pratical keys for raising the dead from the life of Jesus.

Enjoy this replay from September 21, 2025, with Guest Speaker Jim Baker as shares that finances are a tool for establishing the Kingdom and how you can use your resources to bring His world into this world.

9/7/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 18: When Satan Goes to Church - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

8/24/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 16: When to Disobey Your Leaders - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

8/31/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 17: Supernatural Boldness - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

8/17/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 15: How to Respond to Persecution - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

8/10/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 14: God's Plan to Restore All Things - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

8/3/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 13: Acting in Jesus's Name - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship

7/20/25 - The Book of Acts Pt 12: Signs & Wonders - Pastor Jim Baker by Zion Christian Fellowship