Mediumship and Laughter: Conversations with Barbara Banner

In this episode, Barbara Banner returns for a follow-up interview where we shift to a more lighthearted conversation about the incredible and often humorous experiences she encounters as an evidentiary medium, psychic, and channel. 

Barbara shares fascinating stories of spirits communicating through unexpected items, like a toothpick, and even a bagel scooper. She emphasizes the importance of authenticity in mediumship and the joy and laughter that come from these spiritual connections. 

The episode is filled with laughter, practical advice on connecting with loved ones, and touching moments that highlight the profound impact of mediumship.

Transcript

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 1:35

We are welcoming back, Barbara Banner, and I'm so thrilled we had such a wonderful interview initially and now we're gonna keep having fun. Thank you so much, Barbara.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 1:45

So much fun and such a pleasure.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 1:48

I was just saying to Barbara, and I just wanna say it here in the podcast, is I knew that Barbara was an intelligent person with a lot to say, but I can say that the previous interview that we did was so full of really. Important thoughts and concepts. IJI just loved it. But this one I want to be a little bit more not so serious and talk more about some of the things that experiences, I know that there'll be a time when someone to either you or me is gonna say, you can't make this stuff up.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 2:21

say that all the time

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 2:22

Because,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 2:23

every reading I, how can I come up with this

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 2:26

oh,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 2:26

I'm

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 2:26

I. When I first started podcasting I worked with two mediums, very nice women, and we had this little thing at the end of the interviews where they would say what the craziest thing they could think of, and this one by my wonderful. Woman, Rhonda she said she was driving down the road and that, and then she saw this pair of boots walking across the road in front of her, and it's oh my gosh. And it's okay that's pretty crazy. But first I wanna just talk about the fact that you have really three areas that you work in. And you're an evidentiary medium. You do psychic readings and you also do channeling.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:09

I don't just do psychic readings for the most part.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:13

Oh, okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:14

readings can have us a piece of psychic information in there about people who are alive actually that spirit

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:22

I see. I see.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:24

need help. And the evidential is

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:26

Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:27

and then some people can add on the trance part of it to do a message at the end in trance with the person that they love. I, my brain could not handle, 60 minutes of trance. After five minutes,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:39

okay. Okay. Alright. And tell me you were trained by some wonderful teachers about,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:45

in the business. I also

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:46

Tell me who did you work with? Who'd you, who were you trained with?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:48

I was at Arthur Finley College, AKA Hogwarts

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:51

Oh my gosh. That's the top of the top.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:54

Yeah. Suzanne Geman was my first person, and

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 3:58

Oh my gosh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 3:59

and Tony Stockwell and

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:01

Wow.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:01

Hak and some

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:04

Oh really? Oh my gosh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:05

everybody. You take these different classes from different people and you take from them

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:11

Right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:12

What resounds in you. You can't take it all because

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:15

It's too much.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:16

said, don't be humorous. Don't be funny in a Es. It's a sacred thing. I said it may be sacred, but Tony Stockwell said, be who you are. That's Come to you. Authentic self. You don't have to sit there like a little mummy. You can be yourself'cause that's what Spirit wants you to

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:32

It wouldn't be genuine if Barbara Banner went through this. I'm a robot and I'm gonna tell you what it is. It just, it wouldn't ring true. People would never believe you

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:41

believe it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:42

just be you.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:43

Yeah.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:44

Oh, that's neat. That's neat. So you did a lot of training and you

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 4:48

always be learning every, I always learn. I listen to other podcasts. Oh, I'm gonna take that line. I like that. Still Casey,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 4:55

oh and just one quick thing is that being a medium, you are getting a message from somebody outside of you and it's coming to you. And then you are speaking about it, you are, you're communicating it.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:08

Yeah.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:09

And channeling is different than that.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:12

it is because when I'm doing a medium ship reading. I'm awake. I know I can, I'm talking to somebody when I'm in trance. When

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:20

right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:20

Get down to that level. I don't remember what I say.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:24

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:24

And I like it like that. And I just say, I hope something resonated and usually does'cause my head's out of it. That's why I do let people ask questions,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:34

yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:35

first question. I say, don't tell me what the question is. I don't wanna have my head involved in anything.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:41

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 5:41

is so accurate and I don't even it's fun for them.'cause they, some people have misconceptions. Maybe we're cheating. Maybe we Google them before. So yeah those those people make it a little hard.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 5:54

And I think one of the aspects for you as a practitioner, as you're going along, these things come out where you're, you say something like, something that is so ridiculously weird toothpick, whatever. You get in a toothpick and you say, I, I don't know. I'm getting a toothpick. And then and then the person that you're doing says, oh yeah, my grandfather always had a toothpick with him, or whatever. You know what I mean?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 6:21

they're crying over toothpick that, they it means so much to them. That's why I just say I trust whatever they're gonna give me. As it

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 6:28

Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 6:28

I had a little old lady, grandma spirit tell me, tell her granddaughter have me tell her granddaughter, tell her she's gonna have to do phone sex if she wants more money. I said, I didn't mean to say that. I don't even know how it came outta my mouth. And the girl says, don't be silly. She said, my husband and I have had a running joke about doing phone sex. We have a new house. I wanted a new chair. He said, if you want a new chair, you better get ready to do phone sex.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 6:56

Oh my God.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 6:57

it was she said, it was so like my grandmother to, to say that

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 7:02

So here's an inside joke. So here you're getting from the grandmother on the other side. You're getting an inside joke with your, now do you call'em clients or customer, what do you call them?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 7:15

Yeah. They just discussed

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 7:16

They just, yeah, they had just talked about it and and you couldn't possibly have known about it?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 7:22

Yeah. When I ask the questions and say, don't tell me what it is, there are some really funny things that happened. Can I tell you another one?

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 7:29

Oh, I would. I would like to.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 7:30

Okay, so I have a girl maybe in her twenties and her father had passed. And so I said, ask your dad a question. And I said, okay, I'll tell you what he shows me. So a lot of times they wanna use a a prop and a boat, a nice little row boat. On a crystal clear lake is a nice place for them to act things out. So I said, I see you in the front rowing. Okay. To a client. That's great. And your father's in the back showing, showing me he's picking up the slack when you need it, and he is steering you so you don't go off track. And I said, but there's a man in the middle, there's somebody in the middle. And I said, oh my God, your dad is standing up. He's grabbing him by the shoulders. And he threw'em overboard.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 8:11

Oh my.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 8:12

he said, let's go. We're not picking him up. Go. okay. You have to tell me. What was the question? said, how do you like my new boyfriend? I said you got your answer, okay, and

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 8:27

Oh my gosh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 8:29

you can't make it up. I don't even know what the question is

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 8:32

now when you say you saw it, now do you get different mediums have different. Typical things that they get. Do you get a picture in your mind's eye?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 8:42

I see it, I hear it. I feel it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 8:45

Oh, you get a A.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 8:46

three or one, and they make me do movements.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 8:50

Oh, okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 8:50

So I always tell people if I bust into a twerk, please don't call 9 1 1. It is not a medical emergency. So yeah it really depends depends what it is. I had a woman who a client who said. You have this woman sounds like two different ants, so you have to gimme something that I'll know which one it is. And so I start going, okay, it looks like she's churning butter like a farm or something. And the woman looked at me like, okay you're like. I don't even wanna answer that. It's so stupid. I said, look, I know she's not plunging a toilet. Okay. So I said that and she goes, okay, yeah, it is my grandmother, Lulu who lived on a farm and churn butter, but she was just joshing me. But I couldn't stop doing it until we figured it out.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 9:38

Oh, that is very interesting that spirit from the other side comes in and gets you.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 9:45

have fun. They know me, so we just have the, we have a great time.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 9:50

It, what I've heard of from people that have, end near-death experiences and things like that, they, they say that there's, a lot of laughter on the other side.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 10:00

Of course what's not to laugh? They don't have any bills. They always feel good. Do anything they want. If they wanna live in that a castle, they just have to click their little eyes and they can manifest anything. There's nothing physical there, but they

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 10:14

Immediately, right? It, there it is. Castle's there.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 10:18

insta gratification, instant gratification.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 10:21

Wow. Wow. That's so awesome. I wanna just mention that I did an interview with a fellow named David Suic, S-U-I-C-H, and he interviewed 2,500 people that had near death experiences. That doesn't sound exactly right, but it was a lot. 1200 I think it was. So he talked to them at length. What was your near death experience like? And then he wrote a book and you can read it in the book. And it was so wonderful for me to hear. The things that, like you are saying is that when, if they think, oh, I. Like to to do some growing of some plants. Then the plants are there, they've grown, and I wanna look through at something in the country and I can see five miles and I can see exactly what I wanna see. It's it's quite a place over on the other side.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 11:12

Nobody wants to come back. Okay? Sometimes they're forced to come back, but nobody says I can't wait to get back. I got a pile of work on my desk and I got a lot of stuff to do. They don't wanna come back. In fact, when they have to come back, usually they come back angry. Like, why did I have to leave for, to This hell hole Okay.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 11:32

and often they're, they've died from an accident or something and their body is not doing so great. That's.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 11:38

they're gonna survive. So they gotta get back there.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 11:41

On your website, you have some clips there of you talking about, I think about people that you've done medium work for and you have

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 11:51

do it's on what's on my, my TikTok and my

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 11:54

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 11:55

and

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 11:55

Yeah. You have little captions above them,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 11:58

Yes.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 11:59

and I made a list of those

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:01

and I

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 12:01

and I was just wondering whether you could share those with, because obviously you had picked those out as being something interesting and fun to to talk

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:10

Those are older. I have all the ones on TikTok are all the newer

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 12:14

Okay. All right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:15

A

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 12:16

Alright, good. Now I see that one is entitled Flabby. Does that mean anything to you?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:22

Yeah. Yeah. I had a client and we had her grandmother there was something about a card game, I'm not quite sure, but said I, we've gotta make sure that she's not, doesn't have an ASCE up of sleeve. She goes, no, I don't have an ASCE up my sleeve. I got flab here. I got a lot of flab up my sleeve. okay. Something like that.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 12:45

Oh that's funny. That's funny. Now, when you say, I've got a grandmother, that means that you're, you have a grandmother has come through to you.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:54

I

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 12:55

what you mean by that.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 12:56

after my last stint I at, in, in the uk I ask people now who they'd like me to get first,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:03

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:04

important? Because a lot of people, I, we used to just say, see who comes through You can waste a lot of time like that if they're not interested and maybe

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:12

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:13

they don't need to be there. So I always just say, who would you like and what is their relationship to you? And I go right for it. Like a

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:19

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:20

miss.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:20

It's more efficient. I don't want your five levels up. Great grandmother because.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:26

Great grandmother. You didn't know her. So Tony Stockwell, that, that was the teacher that said just. Just get it from them. It's much better, and they usually come right away.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:37

Oh. Oh, that's neat. That's neat,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:40

somebody will come before they told me what they want and I'll say, Hey, this guy is coming

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:44

right?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:45

And he's got people behind him like the conga line. I said, she goes, that's my dad. She goes, I even have a photo of us on the cruise ship

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 13:55

Oh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 13:55

acting like a nutcase the Moroccan. And we have a photo of the family and the whole thing. We got it on film, they know what they spirit knows what they can do to make you to make you understand who it is,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 14:09

C

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 14:10

that, that saves a lot of time as well.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 14:12

Yes, certainly. Certainly. If I had any doubts about whether you were actually communicating with my father and that story came through to you I would know it. It has to be. That has to be, no one else could come up with that.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 14:28

It's crazy. I had one that was very, I thought was very funny. This woman wanted to, connect with her uncle who she really liked. He was a character. And I said, okay, he's on a rocket ship right now. He's straddling it, okay?

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 14:41

geez.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 14:42

And he is going, go fast. Let's go fast. I said, he really wants to go fast. And then he turns around and starts slapping the, his butt,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 14:51

Okay. Okay. Like a.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 14:53

Race horse giddy up. I said, do you have any idea what he is showing us? She said, yeah, he wants the horse to go fast. He's a bookie.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:02

Oh my gosh. Oh, that's that. Oh. Isn't that something they knew? They knew right away.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:09

They knew

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:09

They knew right away.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:10

They

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:11

Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:11

a lot of times when you have somebody thats, there's a lot of times somebody sounds like. Two people,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:18

okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:18

they both smoked, they both

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:20

It could be either, either.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:21

want something. So the woman said the client said, I gotta have something. So I know exactly which one of these people were my aunt. I said, okay, this woman is swallowing a sword and she's going like this. She's, I like she's dancing with a sword. What do you understand? She goes, oh yeah, that's my aunt tan. Because they were from Turkey, she said far and wide was known for her sword dancing and belly dancing.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:53

Oh my gosh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:54

Now I know who it is, just gotta, as I said, they just make me,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 15:58

Oh,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 15:59

it's fun.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:00

That's fantastic. Now. Yeah,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:02

laughter is the best medicine. Okay?

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:06

Yes. Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:06

you come to a medium and you are just down and just wanna believe or have hope. Spirit knows that, and they're gonna do what they can so that you know it's them and that

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:18

Right?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:20

They want you to smile and laugh and have joy because that's what they're doing. They don't get mad at anybody. They're not talking to their sister because she,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:30

Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:31

Lost her favorite dress. There's nothing like

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:34

No grudges.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:35

have love

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:36

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:36

and gratitude.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:38

Wonderful. Wonderful. I was, lucky enough to be involved with a the final exam on a mediumship class. I was the Guinea pig that they were gonna do a reading on me.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 16:49

Okay, the

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 16:49

and so it was wonderful. They asked me you said, who do you wanna connect with? And I said my mom, because I've, I have had several readings, but my mom really hasn't been involved so. Sure enough didn't. My mom comes right through and says, and I said I haven't really been able to connect much with you. And the medium says to me your mom says, how come you're not talking to her at all? You're, just get a hold, talk to her. She rides in the car with you all the time, so whenever you're driving somewhere, she's right in the passenger seat. So just talk to her. And it was so wonderful for me, and because it's oh, I didn't know, I didn't know how I could connect with her. And now I do. And now I feel her presence I never did before. And of course I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have my mother with me

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 17:44

give clients a document. They have to read a document before they see me. And it has resources for connecting with your loved ones on your own. People

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 17:54

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 17:55

a medium and spend that money. They should learn and it takes a while, but,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:00

Right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:00

there's little exercises I give clients before I close the session as well, so they can see, they can do it. If you do it right,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:09

That is very generous of you. That's the, seems like that's the way you roll Barbara.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:13

that's the way I roll.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:15

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:15

show you one of this, one of the one of the outcomes of this little exercise that I do.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:20

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:21

tell them. I'm gonna count to three, and then you're gonna tell me the first thing or item that comes into your head.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:28

Okay. Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:29

go 1, 2, 3, and they give me something. A host of a podcast said, called me the next day and said, you don't know this, but I played along. Okay. I did it. And she said, and I got an elephant.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:40

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:40

said, I thought to myself. Am I gonna see an elephant? It doesn't have to be a physical elephant, it has to be something that represents that in a place you would never expect it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 18:51

Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 18:51

my son to a new mini golf range and wouldn't Chanel on one of the holes. They had an elephant. As a place that you have to put the ball through his legs. Nobody, nothing you would ever expect.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:08

No.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:09

where you would expect it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:10

No.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:11

who does that on their own and gets something like this,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:15

yes,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:16

I say, do it every week. If you have kids, let them pick something.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:20

yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:21

it, bring them in. Bring spirit into the family. They wanna be part of your life. They're not gone.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:29

Okay. Okay. That is great advice because I think for me, I worry am I gonna be disappointed? Is it not gonna work? And'cause I love my mom so much and I just so desperate to be in touch with her and I don't want to be disappointed. And but the deal is if I don't do it, then I'm not gonna

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:51

know.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:52

never know. Right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:53

happen that you don't see something? Maybe you'll see it in a couple of weeks. I had a guy that

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 19:56

Right.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 19:57

I told him he has a secret sister and he just about bit my head off and said You're crazy. A year and a half later he got in touch with me and said, I'm so sorry, I just found out I have a secret sister,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:08

Oh my gosh.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:09

it's gonna happen. don't know. But thing is, with that, with the exercise, it has to be the very first. You can't change it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:20

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:20

wait three seconds and say, oh, I got something better. It's not gonna work.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:24

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:24

your loved one, put that in your head

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:27

I see.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:27

know where you're gonna be and when you're gonna be there to find it.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:33

I see. Yes. So that's crucial. It's not.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:36

first thing.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 20:37

It's not the person that's coming up with it, it's being put in their mind.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 20:41

Of course, because they know this one is amazing. Someone sent me a picture of I had done a reading and she's lost her husband and she sent me a, wanna send me a picture of how cutie was. But I cut his head off so you won't know. She goes look at the Google band that came across it. Get that a little hot, get that a little bigger. Because I, when I asked her, she goes a wrench. He loved to work on cars. she goes up the G for the Google. There's

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 21:08

Oh,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 21:08

in the logo. I have never seen anything go into a logo.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 21:16

No. That's not the way it works. A logo is a logo. It sits by itself. It's never changed. Wow. Wow.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 21:24

when people get something like that, they are so jacked up and excited and believe it. If it's like on the fence, should I believe that when I thought I heard him say my name or his name, or should I not, then they'll think if they can put. A wrench in a logo. Why can't he just yell out my name or ring the doorbell and then they can do so much. But this happened to my daughter a few weeks

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 21:52

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 21:52

She's very connected to my mother-in-law who's on the other side. She said she walked into the kitchen and there was a feather on the floor, and one of the symbols from grandma is a feather.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 22:02

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 22:03

and then her, sorority sister who was staying there for one night walked in and said, that feather, she said. I put that in the trash can three times and it had a lid. I walked in, I threw it away. I came back a little while it was on the floor again, threw it away. And one more time. How did what, that's what they can do.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 22:23

That can do it.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 22:24

flip over, flip off a, a trash can lid that you Your foot on.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 22:28

Oh wild. When I was doing my first podcast with these two mediums, I. We were talking with someone on the phone and I think, or maybe it was a computer connection, like a Zoom or something. But at any rate, we got a voice that came into the recording

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 22:45

Yep.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 22:46

that was none of the three, the four of us. It was some other person or other being a man's voice came onto the recording and it's wow, and you could just hear it. You could just plain as day, it's in there. Whoa.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:03

do so much. We have,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:05

can.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:05

You have to believe if you wanna receive. It's not seeing

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:09

okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:10

It's believing is seeing.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:12

Okay. Okay. And that was so encouraging for you to say, if the thing that comes in your mind and you expect to see it from your, in the near future. It may not be the near future,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:24

It might

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:24

it

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:24

far future,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:26

be the far future you keep that in your mind that when you see it that's what it means.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:30

And a lot of times in a reading, I'm throwing things. Fast at people,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:35

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:35

And you may not know something about this person or didn't know that he only had three toes or something. So I

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:42

right,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 23:43

that if that you can't quite take right now, when you go home, ask a relative or your mom and she go, oh yeah, he had three toes. He lost two in a wood chipper. Find things out, That you didn't know.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 23:54

Oh geez. That is so great. That's so great. Does it wear you out Barbara, do you get tired?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:02

I get tired when I do the trance because

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 24:05

okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:05

just so much energy. expands. So that's why I leave it to the last several minutes. But it's worth it. It's everyone's favorite part.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 24:15

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:15

and I do I can, two a day is really good and sometimes I just get sucked in and somebody needs me and I'll do a

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 24:23

Yeah. Yep.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:24

But I try to spread it out so I have time to rest in between.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 24:27

But the, now the trance is the person on the other side controlling your body. Is that right?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:36

There. like my mind is in this, okay. I'm relaying things as an evidential medium. In trance, I can tell myself, okay, Barb, you go over there and have a cup of coffee. I'm on now. Okay. So that's just get into sort of a, an altered state

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 24:55

Okay,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 24:56

and then, but as I said, I don't really remember other than maybe a word or two when I'm done.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:01

But you're speaking out loud

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:03

Oh yes.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:04

in the trance.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:05

I'm not talking like, like a ghost or anything. It's I just talk softer when I listen to myself do it. I'm talking

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:12

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:13

and my voice is a little, maybe more staccato. So it's not the way I talk now. It's much slower

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:20

Okay.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:21

and maybe a little more flowery.'cause as you can see, I'm not exactly a flowery kind of talker.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:29

No, you're a straight talker.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:30

talker, baby. No bs.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:33

Oh, and you're a lot of fun to talk with too, Barbara. You really are. Yeah. You should smile more though, really,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:40

know. Yeah,

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:41

you gotta cheer up a little bit,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:43

downer. Absolutely.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 25:47

All right, we got time for one more of the your titles that you put on your text.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 25:53

I had a woman who was total skeptic. Okay. Her husband had just deceased took his own life. And she didn't really believe Everything I said was, you could have gotten that in the newspaper

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:04

yep. Yep.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:05

that's very broad. Anybody could say that. And she was asking me really questions that were getting me a little annoyed what was my nickname when I was six?

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:12

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:12

know. It's I, we ended it a little early because I couldn't give her what she wanted.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:17

Yes. Yes.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:18

that gets into your head, anyway I get in touch with her a few days later, say, look, your husband came and visited me last night like around three 30. And this is what he showed me. He showed me a half a bagel toasted. With the center scooped out, you know how some people scoop out so they can save five calories

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:38

oh yes. Take out the,

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:39

in 500 calories of jam or

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:42

yep.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:43

Does that mean anything to you? She said, no, that's not evidence. Why are you telling me this? It was she. I said, okay.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 26:51

You are still striking out with that lady?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 26:53

Still just wanted to tell you. Anyway, she took her daughter to see her father-in-law, the girl's grandfather. And the grandfather said, I invented a product. This is really exciting. I'm gonna show you a prototype and see if you know what it is. So he shows

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:06

Yep.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:07

contraption. She goes, I have no idea what that is. He said, it's a bagel. Scooper.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:13

Oh my goodness.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:17

Can't make this stuff up.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:19

my gosh. Did, was she a big enough person to call you and tell you?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:23

yes.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:24

Oh, good.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:25

me like immediately and said they all were on the floor laughing and crying. They could not believe

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:31

wow.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:32

they understood that he was with them, not only the family, but his parents as well, that he knew exactly what dad was working on.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 27:41

Oh wow. Wow. And there was is not one thing that you could have said to that person that would've made her believe you anymore. Except for when you gave that evidence like that you didn't know you, you didn't know it was evidence.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 27:58

No, she made me think, what am I talking What's the matter with you? Why are you bothering me with this kind of riffraff? It felt good. It felt good.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 28:07

Oh yes. It seems to me that you get a lot of joy from helping people and.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 28:13

Oh my gosh. It is so great to lift them up. If, I sometimes I'll say, I hope I, you're a little more lifted up than you were before when you got here.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 28:24

I'll bet you're pretty darn good at that Barbara Banner. You really are quite a person. I'm so glad that we had a chance to meet and to, and talk. If someone wanted to have a reading with you, how would they go about doing that?

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 28:38

Banner Medium. B-A-N-N-E-R, medium.com. You could check out some things on TikTok and Facebook and Instagram. And on my website there's lots of little little clips like you were talking about that just give you an idea of the kind of fun and interesting Happen.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 28:55

So is there a mechanism then to just type in your name and address or work email and then send it through the.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 29:01

If you go to my website

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 29:02

Yeah.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 29:03

in book a reading it'll take you to a page and you Sign up and you pick from the dates and the times, and then you'll get a confirmation after you fill out a little form. It's very simple.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 29:14

Okay. Good. Even the non-technical people could get that.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 29:18

Yeah. Once in a while somebody says, I can't find the dates. I said, scroll down a little longer, a little more. It's, they're there.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 29:25

You're glad to help. Thank you so much, Barbara. I really look forward to our next time that we get to talk. You've been wonderful to work with. Thank you.

squadcaster-accc_3_12-11-2025_141851 29:34

so much.

james_3_12-11-2025_171851 29:35

Yeah.