Today on The Cameron Journal Podcast we are joined by Diana Colleen the author of, "They Could Be Saviors." What if the solution to climate and everything was simply curing billionaires of greed? The novel asks a provocative question: what if the only way to save the planet was to kidnap the billionaires destroying it? On the surface, it’s speculative fiction. But at its heart, it’s a cultural and political commentary — an attempt to reframe billionaire-ism not as success, but as an illness.

About the book and award winning author Diana Colleen: The book also draws on my own lived experience with psychedelic-assisted therapy, which not only saved my life but also inspired me to explore what happens when those in power are forced to confront their egos and blind spots. I believe climate change can be solved, but only if the right people put their power and resources toward it.

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Today on The Cameron Journal Podcast we are joined by Paul Smith who is the author of Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Memoir of the Psychological Realities of Federal Prison. He wrote this book after being arrested and convicted for healthcare fraud. This took is about his time in federal prison and the people he met along the way and the traumatizing nature of his experience. This one action completely changed his life in so many unfortunate ways.

Listener be warned, this is a quite sad interview. This is about very real experiences in a harsh environment. The mood is somber. Please be in a positive place when you listen to this as it may be depressing.

More about the book:

In Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Memoir of the Psychological Realities of Federal Prison, clinical psychologist Paul Smith reveals the unfiltered truth of life behind bars. Sentenced to 51 months for healthcare fraud, he endured eight prisons during the COVID pandemic, witnessing firsthand how confinement erodes humanity. With rare clarity and honesty, his story offers a chilling yet insightful look into the U.S. prison system—making it essential reading for reviewers, journalists, and interviewers alike.

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Leslie Shoveer is the author of Fission a book set in the early atomic age right as the bomb becomes a reality. Loosely based on family stories, this is a delightful read and an even more delightful conversation.

More about the book: Fission tells the story of nineteen-year-old Doris Friedman, who gives up her dreams of becoming a concert pianist or lawyer when she marries Rob in 1941 and has a sickly, premature baby. Within months, Rob is recruited to work on the Manhattan Project, and the young family moves to Oak Ridge. Just like fission splits an atom’s nucleus, Doris’s marriage threatens to break her heart in two, as she struggles to nurture her daughter while Rob works around the clock. Doris befriends Betty, a Southern debutante. Despite their different backgrounds, the two women sustain each other through difficult moments: Betty’s miscarriage, Rob’s radiation exposure, and his subsequent attempt to enlist to fight at the front. Doris falls for an army engineer—only to realize that he may be a Soviet spy. Should she turn him in and risk damaging her marriage? As the end of the war nears, Doris must decide what’s most important—and what she’s willing to lose.

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