Episodes

Welcome back to the podcast, I'm Jamie Baynes. Today's guest is Jen Satterly; photographer, author and co-founder of the US Special Forces support group, the All Secure Foundation. I spoke to Jen and her husband Tom, in a podcast back in February of this year. That podcast focused on Tom's book, All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront, which I had just read. I wanted to talk to Jen more about her experiences with the Special Forces communi...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Maria Cramer, the NYPD Bureau Chief/reporter for the New York Times. A good friend of mine in the NYPD forwarded me a New York Times article about a neighborhood in Brooklyn that was policing itself. I thought the article was fascinating and saw that it was written by Maria. Her email address was at the bottom of the article, so I decided to write her and see if she’d be willing to come on the episode. To my pleasant surprise, she a...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Jon Barr, creator of the fantastic YouTube channel ‘Here Be Barr’. Jon’s channel showed up in one of my suggested channel selections a couple years ago and I clicked on one of his videos about tourist traps in New York City. Like many people, I’ve always been fascinated about New York and have been a few times, so I watched the video, then clicked on another. Then another. And another. You get the point. To me, and several hundred t...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Jenna Weinstein and I decided to do something a little different for this episode. A good friend of mine, and previous podcast guest, Ben Toderico, suggested that I interview Jenna for an episode. All he said about her was that she was an amazing person. Jenna and I have never talked before this episode was recorded, so I had no idea what made Jenna so special, but figured you’d find out when I did as we talked. So, what makes her s...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is James White, host of the absolutely fantastic YouTube channel, Freakin Reviews. James’ channel popped up in my Youtube suggestions and looked interesting. I clicked on one of his videos. And then another. And then another. In the blink of an eye, an hour was gone and I was searching through his channel for my next fix! Hoping against all hope, I sent him an email inviting him to do a podcast episode and he accepted! So here he is. A...

Today’s guest is a good friend of mine and an overall great guy: the one and only, Dr. Richard Groover. Richard has been an educator for decades and was a reserve deputy with the Hanover County Sheriff’s Office for twenty years. Richard has been a fan of my books and podcasts, and I’m a fan of his, so it seemed like it was time to bring him on an episode and pick his brain on a variety of topics. Give it a listen and then let me know what you think of Richard. I bet like me, you find him instan...

I've been following multiple news stories in the press recently, and have been posting about them as well. Well, I decided to do a short, solo podcast about my thoughts. In it, I told about the superintendent of Richmond Public Schools, the Interim Chief of Police, and a few other things that are on my mind. No script, no outline, no guests. Just me talking. Let me know what you think. Do you agree or disagree? Do you think I'm off base? Do you think I'm racist? I'll answer that last question: I...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is New York Times Bestselling author Don Bentley. Now I have to say something first about the audio of the episode. Number one, I stutter my words when I introduce Don a bit because I was discombobulated. I usually call my guests, but this time, Don called me. Unfortunately I had my phone set to ignore unknown numbers, so I totally missed answering his call. Not a good idea when you’re getting ready to interview anyone, much less a bes...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Jack Roney, author of the crime novels The Angels Wept, The Demons Woke and The Shadows Watch. Jack got on my radar because of the marketing for his first book, The Angels Wept. To say that the book was everywhere be an understatement. Every time I’d open Facebook or Instagram I’d either see the fantastic cover of the book, a post about Jack doing a speaking engagement or teaching an aspiring group of writers. I did some research on...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is bestselling author and native Chicagoian, Tracy Clark. Tracy’s book, Hide, popped up in my suggested reading page on Amazon, so I read the description of the book and immediately hit ‘buy now’. As I say to her in our conversation, once I started reading it, bam! It was off to the races. After I finished it, I reached out to her to see if she’d be interested in being a guest on the podcast, and she graciously agreed. After you liste...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Tim Hendricks, author of the debut novel, The Instructor. Tim’s book showed up in a NetGalley email and I clicked on the link to check out the book’s description. It looked like a winner, so I requested it and got approved to read it. From page one on it was a scorcher! So, naturally, after I finished it I searched for his website hoping to find an email address. I did, shot him an email invitation to see if he’d come on the podcast...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guests are Tom and Jen Satterly, a husband and wife team who are also authors and the founders of the All Secure Foundation, and VIRAGO, a division of the All Secure Foundation that empowers women to help their combat warrior heal from post traumatic stress. I came across Tom and Jen when I picked up the book that he co-authored with Steve Jackson, All Secure, A Special Operations Soldier’s Fight to Survive the Battlefield and the Homefront....

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Tyler Lane, an investigative reporter for WTVR, a local CBS affiliate here in Richmond, Virginia. I’ve been following Tyler’s reporting for awhile and like his style. It seems as if the country’s attention span for news stories that matter is short, compared to obsessions with other stories that are much more frivolous. Tyler breaks that cycle and once he gets a hold of a story, to use his terminology, he peels back the layers like ...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Meredith Spies. I was browsing through a local television station’s website one day and came cross a story that was titled, “He killed her mom. Nearly four years later, she gave him a hug.” I was intrigued and read the article. The story moved me so much, I sent Meredith a message through Facebook and asked if she’d be interested in coming on the episode. Despite me misquoting the article and thinking that her daughter had been the ...

Today’s guest is Sam Allebaugh. If you listened to my interview with Meredith Spies, you know that Sam was the driver of the single axle dump truck that struck and killed Meredith’s mother, Karen Giles. After I interviewed Meredith, she asked if I’d like to interview Sam as well. She thought that he’d be willing to talk to me about what happened and its impact on him. I told her that if he was willing, I’d absolutely want to talk to him. Within minutes, she’d made it happen and Sam and I were se...

Today’s guest is Colette McEachin, Richmond’s Commonwealth Attorney. Colette and I have known each other for nearly three decades, so I obviously wanted to get her on the show. It’s taken me almost six months, but I finally roped her in to doing an episode. I’ve asked so many people their opinion on why crime in Richmond seems to be so rampant, but Colette’s three F’s, Family-Friends-and Firearms sure does make a whole lot of sense. She also makes the valid point that the government can only do...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Pat O’Meara, creator of the absolutely fantastic YouTube channel, My Old Car. Pat’s channel popped up in my suggestion list one day, so I clicked on the video and after watching it for all of two seconds, subscribed to his channel. I reached out to him to see if he’d be interested in being on the podcast, and after he made sure that I wasn’t a scammer, he agreed! Of all the people who’ve come on the podcast, Pat’s the only person w...

Today’s guest is Keith Thornton Jr., a former volunteer firefighter, EMT, police officer and Chicago Emergency Communications dispatcher. Keith’s currently a supervisor in an Emergency Communications Center in a suburb of Chicago. I reached out to Keith on Facebook because of a tragic situation in Chicago where one police office was killed and another gravely wounded. Keith was the police dispatcher that night and managed to organize the officers and assist in the apprehension of the criminals r...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is author and Vietnam veteran Fred Allen. I was on Amazon searching for my next book when his novel, Stingers- Vietnam War, Helicopter Gunships showed up on my feed. I bought it, started reading it and couldn’t stop until I got to the end, which is always a sign of a fantastic book. Fred had put his email address at the end of the novel, so of course I reached out to him and asked him if he’d like to come on the podcast and, he did! A...

Welcome back the the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today, we call back over to London to talk to Hannah Alexander. I came across Hannah on Instagram when I was posting about my hip replacement. She sent me some encouraging words on recovery, so I started following her page and I’m so glad I did. She’s an amazing person and a joy to talk to. I’m sure after listening to our conversation, you can tell that I’m a huge fan. I strongly suggest checking out her Instagram page and following her photograph...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Todays guest is a wonderfully frequent flyer to the show, author and mom, Gloria Lucas. On this episode we talk about Gloria’s new book, How Deep the Ocean, due to be released in November of 2022. I hope you enjoy the episode, then afterwards head on over to her website and check out all of her writing, to include, obviously, her new full-length novel. Additionally, Gloria and I have more collaboration in the works, so make sure you stay tuned for ...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Raven Rollins, a fellow podcaster from Ada, Oklahoma. I came across Raven when one of my previous guests went on her podcast. I decided to check out her website and I liked what I saw. So I reached out to her and asked if she’d like to be a guest on my show. After all, her podcasts focus on true crime and I’m a retired Homicide detective, so it seemed like a great match. Turns out it was and here we are! I hope you enjoy the intervi...

Today’s returning guest is Gloria Lucas. Gloria is the author of an upcoming full-length novel and she’s one of fifteen authors in the upcoming anthology, Fiesta Nights, which is going to be released on September 15th. The release date of Fiesta Nights also just happens to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month. Are you ready to preorder Fiesta Nights? You ought to. Also, if there is a local Hispanic Heritage month event going on where you live, I encourage you to go to it and explore the people...

Welcome back to the podcast, I’m Jamie Baynes. Today’s guest is Andrea Dunn, the author of the new content journal, My Body Boss, Living Wyld with RA. Andrea got diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis when she was 24yrs old. At the time of her diagnosis she was in Daytona Beach and was working essentially two full time jobs at a high school trying to ignore the problems of RA and a dysfunctional job. Florida's ever changing weather made the pain worse. But she was living wild child style on the sur...