Alan Collinge is an advocate for the millions whose lives have been ruined by the practices of student loan lenders. In the first half, he talked about the failure of Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, and the predatory nature of the loan program itself. He considers Biden's plan to have been a political ploy that was doomed to fail, as he used an ill-fitting emergency powers law to try and carry it out, and the Supreme Court eventually rejected it. Going back to 1965, the Higher Education Act gives the Secretary of Education very broad authority to waive, compromise, or release student debt. Collinge finds it head-scratching that the Biden administration didn't use this approach instead. The student loan program has become "weaponized," he declared, noting that it's a cash cow for the federal government, colleges, and for a "real nasty assortment I call the student loans swamp creatures" that includes NGOs and financial companies in the DC area.

Those who take out student loans are stripped of nearly every consumer protection you can mention-- they have no bankruptcy rights or limitations, he cited. And for the people who have repaid their loans, the government profit is something like $50 billion or more a year, he added. Why should the government be profiting off of students, he pondered. Collinge detailed cases where student loans had ballooned over the years, and even though borrowers were paying them back, they were caught on a never-ending interest treadmill. The government should get out of the lending for-profit business, and we should return bankruptcy protections to all student loans, he argued.

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A lifelong multi-disciplinary artist, Pleasant Gehman is a true renaissance woman - a writer, dancer, actor, psychic, musician, and painter. In the latter half, she shared accounts of her psychic abilities throughout her life and techniques of how to manifest your dreams and make the most from synchronicities. She detailed how she would hear a voice in her head that would warn of certain events, such as when the family barn was on fire. Later, she found she had the ability of "electro-psychokinesis," in which objects like light bulbs would sometimes explode around her-- her friends even nicknamed her "Carrie" and "Firestarter" and would warn her to stay away from their computers.

Gehman explored witchcraft at an early age and explained its connection to manifestation and intention. "There's nothing stronger than the power of will," and while that comes from inside, you can use tools like Tarot cards and candles to focus the energy, she said. Writing a goal down repeatedly helps to make it more concrete, she continued, and you could, for instance, burn the paper that contains your writing with a special candle in a fireproof container on the new moon, which is an ideal time to start new things. She also discussed the power of inspirational dreams-- one dream she had led her to start an all-female band, The Screaming Sirens, which combined country music, punk rock, and rockabilly. During the last hour, she gave readings for callers.

News segment guests: John M. Curtis, Charles Coppes, Pat Boone